(2024-07-29). Hezbollah Attacks Israel With Fresh Rocket Barrage Despite 'All-Out War' Warning | Golan Heights. hindustantimes.com Hezbollah on July 28 launched fresh attacks amid flurry of warnings issued by Israel. IDF, on July 28, said two rockets were launched from Lebanon. The rockets targeted the northern community of Shtula, as per Israeli Army. Watch for more.
(2024-07-29). Golan Heights attack: The claims and counterclaims on Majdal Shams strike. middleeasteye.net 
Golan Heights attack: The claims and counterclaims on Majdal Shams strike | Israel says an Iranian-made rocket was used in the incident, yet Hezbollah insists that a misfired Iron Dome missile was responsible | | Families grieve children who were killed at a soccer pitch by a rocket react before the…
(2024-07-29). Israel strikes Lebanon as Western diplomats warn of escalation. presstv.ir Israel has pounded southern Lebanon after it accused Hezbollah of firing a rocket that killed a dozen people in the town of the Majdal Shams in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
(2024-07-29). Israel's Arab Ally Openly Supports Lebanon, Skips Condemnation Of Golan Heights Attack | Hezbollah. hindustantimes.com Israel's arab ally made a big remark amid mounting tensions along the Lebanese border. Egypt's Foreign Ministery expressed 'support' to Lebanon without mentioning Hezbollah. Cairo also did not condemn deadly rocket attack on Israel-occupied Golan Heights. Watch for more.
(2024-07-29). Backed by US, Israel threatens wider war after Golan Heights blast. wsws.org While the circumstances surrounding the strike that hit a tiny soccer field in the occupied enclave remain unclear, the response of the Israeli regime and the White House are indications of a provocation to justify a devastating war.
(2024-07-29). Hezbollah evacuates positions in Lebanon ahead of expected Israel raids. scmp.com Israel has vowed retaliation after rocket fire from Lebanon killed 12 young people in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights.
(2024-07-29). Backed by US, Israel threatens wider war after Golan Heights blast. wsws.org While the circumstances surrounding the strike that hit a tiny soccer field in the occupied enclave remain unclear, the response of the Israeli regime and the White House are indications of a provocation to justify a devastating war.
(2024-07-29). Israel launches drones at Lebanon as fears of escalation spike. aljazeera.com Israel has pledged retaliation for a strike on the occupied Golan Heights for which it has blamed Hezbollah.
(2024-07-29). 'Operation al-Aqsa Flood' Day 297: Israel and Lebanon brace for new escalation after 12 Syrian residents of the Golan Heights were killed by a strike. mondoweiss.net 
Israeli officials say that Netanyahu is behind Israel's hardened position preventing a ceasefire deal as a new round of talks in Rome concludes without a breakthrough.
(2024-07-29). Lebanon urges international probe into deadly Golan strike. newarab.com 
(2024-07-29). The rocket that killed 12 children in Majdal Shams also hit a raw nerve in the relations between the Golan Druze and Israel. haaretz.com The unique situation of the Golan Heights Druze has been highlighted after the most tragic day in the community's history. Stuck between longstanding Syrian identity and growing affiliation with Israel, especially among youth, this small and tight-knit population faces an uncertain future…
(2024-07-29). Iran sternly warns Israel against 'adventurism' in Lebanon after Golan Heights incident. presstv.ir Iran sternly warns Israel against "any new adventurism" concerning Lebanon after the regime accused Hezbollah of firing a rocket that killed a dozen people in the town of the Majdal Shams in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
(2024-07-29). Majdal Shams massacre: Syria warns against Israel's bids to escalate tension. presstv.ir Syria condemns Israel's brutal massacre in the town of the Majdal Shams which aims to escalate situation in the region.
(2024-07-29). Hezbollah Outsmarts Israel Amid War Fear? Lebanese Group's Big Pre-emptive Move | Golan Heights. hindustantimes.com Hezbollah's big move as Israel warns of all-out war after deadly attack on soccerfield. Times of Israel reported that Hezbollah is clearing out key Lebanese sites. The preemptive moves were reported from Lebanon's south and eastern Bekaa Valley. Watch for more.
(2024-07-29). Hezbollah evacuates positions in Lebanon ahead of expected Israel raids. scmp.com Israel has vowed retaliation after rocket fire from Lebanon killed 12 young people in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights.
(2024-07-29). More dead children: More BBC "news" channelling Israeli propaganda as its own. dissidentvoice.org 
BBC coverage of the attack on a football pitch in the Golan Heights on Saturday has been intentionally misleading. The BBC's evening news entirely ignored the fact that those killed by the blast are a dozen Syrians, not Israeli citizens, and that for decades the surviving Syrian population in the Golan, most of them Druze, …
(2024-07-29). Pro-Palestinian demonstrators in Paris reject Israel's participation in Olympics. presstv.ir Demonstrators gather in Paris to protest against Israel's war in Gaza and its participation in the Olympic Games.
(2024-07-29). Pro-Palestinian demonstrators in Paris reject Israel's participation in Olympics. presstv.ir Demonstrators gather in Paris to protest against Israel's war in Gaza and its participation in the Olympic Games.
(2024-07-29). Relief to Southern Lebanon: 8,000 Families Receive Food Parcels. icrc.org
(2024-07-29). Arab Parliament condemns Israel's 'heinous massacre' in Deir Al-Balah. presstv.ir The Arab Parliament has strongly condemned Israel's "heinous massacre" against Palestinian civilians in Deir al-Balah, while denouncing the "shameful international silence" on the crimes of the occupying regime in Gaza.
(2024-07-29). 27 July 1988: Iranian prisoners massacred. indybay.org Initially prisoners who supported the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran were targeted, but in late August, communist and left-wing prisoners began to be murdered.
(2024-07-29). Israel strikes several towns in southern Lebanon as tensions escalate. presstv.ir The Israeli regime stages a fresh bout of strikes against Lebanon under the pretext of hitting back against Hezbollah.
(2024-07-29). Beirut Airport Disrupted by Israel-Hezbollah Conflict Escalation. themedialine.org 
(2024-07-29). 'Hezbollah Will Strike Tel Aviv': Israel Scared Of War, 'No Offensive Deployment On Lebanon Border. hindustantimes.com Israel has reportedly not made "offensive deployment" to the Lebanon border despite issuing threats of an all-out war to Hezbollah, Al Jazeera reported, citing a military analyst. "On the border, there are no offensive deployments by the Israeli army that would indicate a ground attack against Lebanon, as was the case in 2006, 1982, and 1978," Elias Farhat, a military analyst, told Al Jazeera. Watch this video for more information.
(2024-07-29). Looks Like Israel is Manufacturing a Reason to Go To War With Hezbollah and Iran. sonar21.com 
(2024-07-29). U.S. warns citizens in Lebanon: 'Develop crisis plan before it begins'; airlines cancel flights to Beirut, Tel Aviv. haaretz.com Lufthansa, Air France, Turkish Airlines, Agean Airlines and other major carriers have decided to delay and cancel flights to Lebanon's only international airport…
(2024-07-29). Hezbollah evacuates positions ahead of expected Israel raids: source close to group. newarab.com 
(2024-07-29). 11-year-old Druze boy identified as 12th victim of Hezbollah rocket attack. haaretz.com DNA tests conducted on evidence found at the scene of the rocket attack confirmed the death of Gevara Ebraheem…
(2024-07-29). 'Murderer': PM Netanyahu heckled during visit to Majdal Shams. haaretz.com Body of missing 11-year-old victim of Hezbollah rocket attack identified, raising death toll to 12 ‚ñ Northern Israeli regional council warns residents of evacuated settlements 'to be alert and to reduce gatherings' ‚ñ Report: Two killed and three wounded in IDF strike in southern Lebanon ‚ñ Gallant instructed to prepare for developments in the north: 'Hezbollah will not wash itself clean from this incident'…
(2024-07-29). 'New rules of engagement': Iraqi resistance warns Israel as Lebanon says 'more united than ever'. presstv.ir An Iraqi anti-terror group has warned that the new rules of engagement will hurt the US and Israel badly in case the Tel Aviv regime attacks Hezbollah.
(2024-07-29). All-out war in the north? Israel's reaction to Majdal Shams attack will be the deciding factor. haaretz.com The disaster in the Druze community in the north won't go unanswered, as Israeli experts try to gauge possible next moves by Hezbollah ‚ñ While all eyes are on the north, chances of Gaza hostage deal go down…
(2024-07-29). Israel faces "unthinkable defeat" against Iran, Hezbollah: Scott Ritter. muslimmirror.com By Muslim Mirror Desk In a startling statement, former United Nations weapons inspector Scott Ritter has warned that Israel could face an "unthinkable defeat" if it were to engage in a military conflict with Iran and Hezbollah. Ritter, who has previously been vocal about Middle Eastern military affairs, emphasized the significant military capabilities of both …
(2024-07-29). Airlines cancel flights at Lebanon's airport amid Israel-Hezbollah tensions. aljazeera.com Cancellations come amid fears of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah following rocket attack.
(2024-07-29). Israel Authorizes Response to Hezbollah Rocket Attack That Killed 12. themedialine.org 
(2024-07-29). On the killing field in Majdal Shams: A great but quiet grief. haaretz.com A picturesque and quiet place on the foot of a mountain, the Druze town of Majdal Shams was shaken to its core after a rocket strike from Lebanon killed 12 children and teenagers. 'They were the children of us all,' said one resident…
(2024-07-29). All-out war on Lebanon will lead to Israel's downfall, warns Lebanese MP. presstv.ir A senior Lebanese lawmaker has warned Israel against launching an all-out war on his country, stressing that such an act of aggression will result in the downfall of the occupying regime.
(2024-07-29). Iran's New President Warns Israel against Attacking Lebanon. tn.ai TEHRAN (Tasnim) — Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian cautioned the Israeli regime that a fresh act of aggression against Lebanon will carry heavy consequences for Zionists.
(2024-07-29). 'Heavy' consequences await Israel if it attacks Lebanon, Iranian president warns. presstv.ir President Pezeshkian issued the warning in a phone conversation with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron.
(2024-07-29). Beirut Airport Flights Disrupted amid Rising Israel Threat. tn.ai TEHRAN (Tasnim) — All flights at Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport have been delayed or canceled due to the threat of a possible Israeli attack on Lebanon.
(2024-07-29). Lebanon in state of apprehension as Israel mulls military attack. newarab.com 
(2024-07-29). Lebanon braces for Israeli retaliation, strike kills 2 in south. newarab.com 
(2024-07-29). Israel's forced displacement orders lead Gazans to 'actual death': Euro-Med. presstv.ir The rights group says Israel's forced evacuation orders reflect its "persistence in committing the crime of genocide in the Gaza Strip."
(2024-07-29). Suspend Israel from the United Nations! globalresearch.ca For most normal people, seeing war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu — the man commanding the ONGOING genocide campaign in Gaza — would send them into a fit of rage. U.S. lawmakers, however, rose to their feet with roaring applause to celebrate …
(2024-07-29). Congress: Netanyahu Commands, US Obeys. transcend.org 24 Jul 2024 – USA as 'Savior,' Israel as 'Victim' – Bibi, who addresses a joint-session of Congress today, is the subject of an arrest warrant from the ICC. He has demanded the US shield Israel from criticism while continuing to arm and support its genocide — and the U.S. has answered his call.
(2024-07-29). The West and its Assault on Christianity. marktanliano.net 
Western politicians, the same ones who support and applaud apartheid Israel's genocide of Palestinians, would have us believe that they support democracy and freedom and humanitarianism as foreign policy goals. These same AIPAC-funded politicians would also have us believe that they support religious and ethnic pluralism as foreign policy goals. Now more than ever their …
(2024-07-29). From Majdal Shams to Rafah: How AI airbrushed Israel's genocide. newarab.com 
(2024-07-29). Thousands Shut Down the US Capitol to Protest Israel's Genocide. transcend.org 25 Jul 2024 – Thousands of people of conscience from across the US turned out to protest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to D.C. this week — including hundreds of American Jews who were arrested while engaged in prayerful civil disobedience, demanding an immediate arms embargo on Israel.
(2024-07-29). You, your govt are barbaric, India's Priyanka rips into Netanyahu. ummid.com Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Friday condemned Benjamin Netanyahu and his far right Zionist government in Israel over the genocidal war in Gaza that has killed or injured over a lakh Palestinians since Oct 7.
(2024-07-29). Take Action August 3: Join the International Day of Action for Gaza and the Prisoners. samidoun.net 
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network joins the calls from Palestine to make 3 August — the 300th day of the ongoing genocide in Palestine — an international day of action for Gaza and the prisoners. We urge all Palestinian and Arab communities and organizations in exile and diaspora, and all internationalist organizations and activists for …
(2024-07-29). Israeli army commanders gave order to blow up Rafah reservoir. IDF suspects breach of int'l law. haaretz.com The Armored Corps soldiers blew up the reservoir with the approval of their commanders but without the OK of senior officers. One soldier posted footage on social media describing it as 'in honor of Shabbat.' The army will decide whether to open a formal investigation…
(2024-07-29). Israeli commanders deliberately blew up Rafah's main water hub. newarab.com 
Israeli army commanders reportedly gave the order for soldiers to blow up the main drinking water reservoir facility in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, in a flagrant Israeli newspaper Haaretz
(2024-07-29). UK drops objection to ICC arrest warrant against Netanyahu. ummid.com In another setback for the far right Zionist regime in Israel, and Benjamin Netanyahu personally, the United Kingdom has decided to drop its objection to the arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC).
(2024-07-29). War on Gaza: Majority in UK, Italy and Spain back ICC warrant against Israel's Netanyahu. middleeasteye.net 
War on Gaza: Majority in UK, Italy and Spain back ICC warrant against Israel's Netanyahu | Poll finds plurality of support in several countries, as well as a wish for an arrest warrant to be issued for Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar | | Netanyahu was applauded by US legislators during a speech to Congres…
(2024-07-29). Freedom Flotilla's Handala En Route to Challenge Israeli Blockade of Gaza. globalresearch.ca We want to update you, the supporters of U.S. Boats to Gaza and the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, on the status of the 2024 Gaza Freedom Flotilla. | The ship Handala of the 2024 Gaza Freedom Flotilla's mission to challenge the Israeli …
(2024-07-29). Falsely Accusing Biden And Harris Of Hating Israel; Falsely Accusing Trump Of Loving Russia. caitlinjohnstone.com.au In reality both Democrats and Republicans are more or less in lockstep on supporting Israel and subverting Russia, and on every other major foreign policy issue in Washington.
(2024-07-29). FIDH Calls on IOC to Address Human Rights Violations in Palestine. fidh.org In an open letter to Dr. Thomas Bach, President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) has urgently called for immediate and effective measures in response to the escalating and deteriorating situation in the occupied Palestinian territory, particularly in Gaza. Drawing on the precedent set by the IOC's actions against Russia and Belarus, as well as the recent International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling, FIDH emphasizes the (…) | – |
(2024-07-29). Top ICJ lawyer says UK should halt arms sales to Israel. newarab.com 
A top human rights lawyer said the UK must stop The International Court of Justice (ICJ) said that Israel's occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza…
(2024-07-29). Latest Israeli school attack shocks Gaza. electronicintifada.net Most of the victims were women and children.
(2024-07-29). Yemen's Houthis are prepared for a lengthy battle in the Red Sea. newarab.com 
(2024-07-29). The ICJ opinion on Israel's occupation leaves the US facing a hard choice. aljazeera.com The rules based order can only claim any validity if the rule of law is regarded as valid upon all, including Israel.
(2024-07-29). US Domestic Policies and Laws Regarding Weapons Transfers to Israel. transcend.org 26 Jul 2024 – Irony? The same week the ICJ declared Israel's occupation of The West Bank illegal under International Law, Netanyahu broke the record (formerly held by Winston Churchill) for the number of times a head of state addressed the US Congress.
(2024-07-29). Hundreds of thousands in Deir el-Balah after evacuation order. newarab.com 
Thousands of Palestinians fled a community in the central Israeli forces, which have now captured nearly the entire Gaza Strip in nearly 10 months of war, have spent the last several weeks launching major operations in areas where th…
(2024-07-29). Pro-Palestinian protesters denounce Israeli athletes' participation in Olympics. presstv.ir Demonstrators gathered in the center of Paris to protest the Israel delegation's participation in the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics.
(2024-07-29). Colonizers Burn Vehicles Near Hebron. imemc.org 
On Monday, illegal Israeli colonizers burned and vandalized vehicles in the village of Qilqis, south of Hebron in the southern occupied West Bank. Media sources said that before dawn armed paramilitary settlers scrawled racist graffiti on vehicles, and burned others in a garage owned by the Salhab family in Qilqis village, south of Hebron. Sources …
(2024-07-29). Israel's Bombing of Gaza 4.6 Times Stronger in Total Explosive Force Than Hiroshima Nuclear Bombing. transcend.org 14 Jun 2024 – Israel has dropped 70,000 tons of bombs on Palestine's Gaza since 7 Oct, exceeding World War II bombings of Dresden, Hamburg and London combined, according to Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor.
(2024-07-29). Humiliation Upon Request. transcend.org 25 Jul 2024 – Israel's inhumane treatment of the Palestinians leaves Europeans unmoved. European political elites above all. Instead, they cheer on the Israelis in effusive displays of solidarity so that the IDF can better carry out their odious campaign.
(2024-07-29). Companies Ask Court To Keep Their Israel Export Details Secret. indybay.org TTM Technologies, General Dynamics Land Systems-Canada, GeoSpectrum Technologies and Excelitas asked for orders to keep details of their export permits confidential or stated their intention or potential intention to seek such orders.
(2024-07-29). Israel/Occupied and Autonomous Palestinian Territories: West Bank Barrier causes serious humanitarian and legal problems. icrc.org
(2024-07-29). Netanyahu delays evacuation of sick Gaza children to UAE amid rising tensions. nationofchange.org Israeli Prime Minister's decision leaves 150 Palestinian children stranded in Gaza amid cross-border attacks.
(2024-07-29). Erdogan says Turkey might enter Israel to help Palestinians. newarab.com 
President Erdogan, who has been a fierce critic of Israel's offensive on
(2024-07-29). Israeli soldiers suspected of raping Palestinian prisoner arrested, sparking far-right riot. middleeasteye.net 
Israeli soldiers suspected of raping Palestinian prisoner arrested, sparking far-right riot | Minister among Israelis storming notorious Sde Teiman detention facility in solidarity with the suspects | | Israeli protesters wave flags outside Sde Teiman detention facility, after Israeli soldiers were…
(2024-07-29). Netanyahu blocks plan to send Gaza children for treatment abroad. newarab.com 
The decision comes after a The Israeli broadcaster Kan said on…
(2024-07-29). Algerian judoka dropped from Olympics before facing Israeli. newarab.com 
Messaoud Dris of The International Judo Federation (IJF) issued a brief statement declaring Butbul the winner by walkover. | The bout was scheduled to be the first in the men's 73-kilogram division on Monday, but given its political implications, many suspected it would not happen fro…
(2024-07-29). Where Do We Go Now, Ask Gazans Uprooted by New Israeli Evacuation Orders. transcend.org 23 Jul 2024 – Gazans uprooted by the Israeli military's latest evacuation orders have fled their shelters and homes "running for their lives", with barely any belongings and little idea where they will end up, UN humanitarians said today.
(2024-07-29). Reframing "Two-state" Possibilities. transcend.org 29 Jul 2024 – Beyond the Constraints of Disciplinary Frameworks in a Two-state Civilization – There is no lack of references over an extensive period to "the" Israel-Palestine "two-state" solution.
(2024-07-29). Palestinians forced to flee as Israel pushes into Gaza's cities. aljazeera.com The UN agency for Palestinian refugees says 86 percent of the Gaza Strip is currently under evacuation orders.
(2024-07-29). Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: The law of occupation must be respected. icrc.org
(2024-07-29). Cuba Eyes Strong Ties with Iran's New Admin. tn.ai TEHRAN (Tasnim) — A ranking Cuban diplomat expressed the Latin American nation's readiness to work closely with the administration of new Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian in various fields, including joint action to protect the rights of Palestinians and counter the Israeli regime's crimes.
(2024-07-29). Another Israeli trooper dies, several injured in Gaza; death toll at 329. presstv.ir Another Israeli trooper dies of the injuries he had received more than a week ago in the Gaza Strip.
(2024-07-29). Washington Post: Palestinian inmates recount deadly abuse in Israeli jails. presstv.ir Doctors from Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI) told the paper 12 Palestinians from the West Bank and the occupied territories have died from abuse since October 7, 2023.
(2024-07-29). Algerian judoka withdraws from Paris Olympics to avoid facing Israeli opponent. presstv.ir An Algerian judoka withdraws from his first match of the 2024 Paris Olympics to avoid facing his Israeli opponent.
(2024-07-29). Gaza: Bisan Owda nominated for News and Documentary Emmy. ummid.com Bisan Owda, a Palestinian Journalist, Filmmaker and Activist has been nominated for News and Documentary Emmy Award for her poignant storytelling and reporting from Gaza during the ongoing Israel-Palestine war.
(2024-07-29). Netanyahu delays evacuation of sick Gaza children to UAE amid rising tensions. nationofchange.org Israeli Prime Minister's decision leaves 150 Palestinian children stranded in Gaza amid cross-border attacks.
(2024-07-29). Defend Palestine: Faz3a (ŸÅÿ≤ÿπÿ©) Call for Volunteers. indybay.org Now more than ever, international solidarity, here on the ground, is essential for Palestinians in the West Bank to be able to confront Israeli violence.
(2024-07-29). Israeli Forces Abduct Nine Palestinians Near Bethlehem. imemc.org 
On Monday, Israeli forces abducted nine Palestinians, including former prisoners and a child in various areas of the southern West Bank governorate of Bethlehem. Media sources said that occupation forces abducted Murad Musa Ahmad Al-Khamour, 27, Moataz Mohammad Mustafa Sharia, 32, and the child, Ayser Majdi Mohammad Al-Zaghari, 17, from Al-Dheisheh refugee camp, southwest of …
(2024-07-29). The Battle of Caesarea: will the fall of Netanyahu's rule start at home? haaretz.com The growing protests in Caesarea, where the prime minister lives, has created an uproar in one of the richest towns in Israel. 'Caesarea reflects the problems facing the entire country — a lot of hatred and division, and a silent majority'…
(2024-07-29). Trump tells Christian voters they 'won't have to vote anymore' if he's elected. whyy.org This story originally appeared on Former President Donald Trump struck several familiar notes in his address to Christians at Turning Point Action's "Believers Summit" in West Palm Beach, Fla. | The gathering of religious conservatives Friday night was an opportunity for Trump to appeal to the critical Republican voting bloc. The Republican nominee promised to protect religious freedom and touted his history of supporting the Israeli government. | Trump also urged Christians to turn out for him ahead of Elec…
(2024-07-29). Which countries have sanctioned Israeli settlers — and does it mean much? aljazeera.com Australia is the latest nation to sanction select settlers. But Israel's land grabs and violence have only grown.
(2024-07-29). Day 297: Deadly Israeli Airstrikes Continue Unchecked in Gaza. imemc.org 
Despite condemnation for having killed over 50 civilians, including many children in the bombing of a school on Saturday in Deir al-Balah, Israeli forces continued their assault on the entire civilian population of 2.24 million people in Gaza on Monday for the 297th straight day. Before dawn on Monday, the Israeli warplanes continued their ceaseless …
(2024-07-29). Pro-Palestinian protesters denounce Israeli athletes' participation in Olympics. presstv.ir Demonstrators gathered in the center of Paris to protest the Israel delegation's participation in the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics.
(2024-07-29). On US trip, Netanyahu found support as usual — but also problems ahead. aljazeera.com Relationship with US is crucial to Israel, making Netanyahu's trip of vital importance.
(2024-07-29). 5 killed in Israeli strike in Gaza's Al-Mawasi: civil defence. newarab.com 
The civil defence agency in A witness told AFP a newborn was among the dead in Al-Mawasi near Khan Younis city, where tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians have sought refuge fro…
(2024-07-29). Friday 8/2: San Jose: Peace Vigil – Ceasefire Now! No Weapons for Israel or Ukraine! indybay.org in front of MLK Library | 4th and San Fernando | San Jose, CA…
(2024-07-29). Rashid Khalidi: The Neck and The Sword. newleftreview.org Rashid Khalidi and Tariq Ali discuss the political and intellectual history of the Palestinian national movement, its fraught entanglement with neighbouring Arab regimes, the realities of the 'peace process', Israel's grip on the Biden Administration and the strategic calculations—or miscalculations—of Hamas.
(2024-07-29). Erdogan threatens Turkish military intervention against Israel. wsws.org The dangerous escalation between the Israeli and Turkish bourgeoisies, two reactionary allies of US-NATO imperialism, is a warning of the acute danger of a Middle East war…
(2024-07-29). Israel's torture of Palestinian abductees reaches 'crisis point'. presstv.ir A Palestinian lawyer says he received reports of severe beatings and systematic starvation in Israel's prisons.
(2024-07-29). Attacks, arrests, threats, censorship: The high risks of reporting the Israel-Gaza war. Mohamed Mandour
(2024-07-29). Israeli Killings of Children in West Bank Skyrocket. transcend.org 23 Jul 2024 – UNICEF says 143 children are among the more than 500 Palestinians killed in Israeli raids and settler attacks in the occupied West Bank over the last 10 months.
(2024-07-29). Erdogan says Turkey could intervene militarily to stop Israel's war on Gaza. presstv.ir The Turkish head of state was addressing the ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party.
(2024-07-29). Israeli reservists recount atrocities in Gaza, refuse to return to war. presstv.ir Earlier this month, six Israeli soldiers presented harrowing testimonies as they recounted how their fellow soldiers routinely executed Palestinian civilians.
(2024-07-29). China seals Hamas, Fatah unity govt deal in Gaza. ummid.com In a landmark development, the Palestinian leadership associated with 14 factions including Fatah and Hamas, Tuesday signed a deal in China for joint control and rebuilding of Gaza once Israel ends its genocidal war in the besieged enclave.
(2024-07-29). Iran condemns Canada, Australia, and New Zealand's 'dual approach' on Israel. presstv.ir Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kana'ni said such double-standard approach encourages the Israeli aggressor to commit more war crimes in the Gaza Strip.
(2024-07-29). Majdal Shams residents mourn martyrs, reject any Israeli presence. mronline.org The Israeli news website Walla says Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich was met with rejection and protests upon his arrival in the town.
(2024-07-29). China Throws Clout behind Palestine. transcend.org 26 Jul 2024 – The Beijing Declaration cements the idea that global conflict resolution is now Made in China. But it also throws a wrench in US—Israeli efforts to manufacture a collaborator Palestinian government after the war in Gaza.
(2024-07-29). UK Urged to Halt Arms Sales to Israel Following UN Court's Ruling. tn.ai TEHRAN (Tasnim) — The UK should cease arming Israel to adhere to the UN's advisory opinion against aiding the occupation of Palestinian territories, according to a lawyer who represented Palestine, the Guardian reported.
(2024-07-29). 'Less of a blank cheque': On US trip, Netanyahu found support — and trouble. aljazeera.com Relationship with US is crucial to Israel, making Netanyahu's trip of vital importance.
(2024-07-29). Global South sees U.S. Congress hail Israeli killer of 39,000 of their people mostly women and kids. mronline.org 
The Health Ministry in Gaza reports that as of the end of July, 2024, more than 39,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, have been slaughtered in Gaza by the Israeli military using hegemon U.S.A.'s mighty weapons of mass destruction.
(2024-07-29). 'Butchers of Gaza': Protesters as Netanyahu, in tow with Biden, addresses U.S. Congress. ummid.com The Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. Wednesday erupted in a strong protest as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in tow with U.S. President Joe Biden, addressed the Congress.
(2024-07-29). 'Netanyahu prevents 150 sick Gaza children from seeking treatment abroad'. presstv.ir A new report says the Israeli prime minister has prevented over 100 sick children from Gaza to seek treatment abroad.
(2024-07-29). UK government to suspend arms sales to Israel 'soon': report. newarab.com The The possibility has irked the Israeli government according to the British newspaper The Telegraph, which cited unnamed Israeli sources. | It comes off the back of a decision earlier this month from the new Labour go…
(2024-07-29). For Palestine: Algerian judoka isn't the first to snub Israeli opponent in Olympics. presstv.ir Algerian judoka Messaoud Dris pulled out of the Paris 2024 Olympics on Sunday to avoid facing his Israeli opponent. He isn't the first one to snub Israeli athletes in Olympic history.
(2024-07-29). Israelis kill 30, including children, in attack on Gaza school. peoplesworld.org 
Seven children and seven women were reportedly among the dead taken from the girls' school in Deir al-Balah to al-Aqsa Hospital. Israel's military said that the air raid was targeted at a Hamas command center used to direct attacks against Israeli troops and store "large quantities of weapons." Hamas slammed the Israeli claim as false. …
(2024-07-29). Anti-Zionist Rabbi Calls for Continued Boycott of Companies Backing Israel. transcend.org 22 Jul 2024 – Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss has called on opponents of the Zionist state to continue boycotting companies allied to Israel when asked about the Putrajaya's deal with a company owned by US fund manager BlackRock.
(2024-07-29). Polio epidemic declared in Gaza amid worsening health crisis. presstv.ir The WHO recently warned of a high risk of the polio virus spreading across the Israeli-bombarded Palestinian region.
(2024-07-29). Israel orders evacuation of Bureij, Nuseirat in Gaza. newarab.com 
However, the UN's agency for Palestine Refugees (
(2024-07-29). Azmi Bishara: Israel 'let Biden down' over Gaza ceasefire deal. newarab.com 
Bishara thinks Biden could exert more pressure on Israel but chooses not to, while also saying he doesn'
(2024-07-29). Gaza war: Hamas says Israel's Netanyahu 'stalling' ceasefire deal with new terms. scmp.com Hamas officials have previously accused Netanyahu of hindering negotiations, but Israelis have made similar allegations.
(2024-07-29). Leaked UN Report: Israel Has Killed 366 UN Staff and Family Members as Netanyahu Addresses US Congress. transcend.org 24 Jul 2024 – The confidential report is the first to detail the toll faced by the families of UN workers in Gaza.
(2024-07-29). Day 297: Deadly Israeli Airstrikes Continue Unchecked in Gaza. imemc.org 
Despite condemnation for having killed over 50 civilians, including many children in the bombing of a school on Saturday in Deir al-Balah, Israeli forces continued their assault on the entire civilian population of 2.24 million people in Gaza on Monday for the 297th straight day. Before dawn on Monday, the Israeli warplanes continued their ceaseless …
(2024-07-29). Video: Skin diseases & life-threatening virus in Gaza due to filthy water. aljazeera.com Palestinians trying to survive Israel's war on Gaza face another threat: filthy water that contains polio virus.
(2024-07-29). Church of England bishop calls Israel apartheid state. newarab.com 
Bishop Rachel Treweek called The comments from Treweek were published in a reflection posted on the Diocese of Gloucester website, coming after she visited Israel and the occupied West Bank last month. | "In the past I have been wary of…
(2024-07-29). I was born in Israel. I am not going anywhere. haaretz.com I don't intend to move. Hamas won't make me move, and neither will Bezalel Smotrich or Itamar Ben-Gvir…
(2024-07-29). Gaza war: Hamas says Israel's Netanyahu 'stalling' ceasefire deal with new terms. scmp.com Hamas officials have previously accused Netanyahu of hindering negotiations, but Israelis have made similar allegations.
(2024-07-29). Yemen port damage estimated at $20 mn after Israel strike. newarab.com 
An The 20 July attack on Hodeidah, the main harbour under the control of the Iran-backed
(2024-07-29). Soldiers Abduct Three Palestinians Near Jerusalem. imemc.org 
On Monday, Israeli forces abducted three Palestinian young men in the Qalandia refugee camp and the town of Al-'Isawiya, in the West Bank governorate of Jerusalem. Media sources said that at dawn Monday, occupation forces stormed the Qalandia camp, north of occupied Jerusalem, and abducted two young men. Sources added that soldiers invaded the homes …
(2024-07-29). 10,000 Students, 400 Teachers Killed in Israeli Strikes on Gaza. tn.ai TEHRAN (Tasnim) — The Palestinian Ministry of Education reports the deaths of approximately 10,000 students and 400 teachers in Gaza due to ongoing Israeli attacks that started on October 7.
(2024-07-29). Israel Destroys Gaza and Palestine and Arab Leaders Lost the Future. transcend.org Monsters of History Defy Truth, Justice, Sanctity of Life and Earth…
(2024-07-29). Iran says Gaza war 'most important human issue' in world, threat to global security. presstv.ir Iran's interim Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani warns of the threat posed to regional and global peace by the continuation of Israeli war crimes in the Gaza Strip, calling for more serious efforts to end the atrocities.
(2024-07-29). Watch: Palestinian athletes cheered, Israeli team booed at Paris Olympics 2024. ummid.com The Summer Olympic 2024 to be inaugurated today in the French capital is witnessing contrasting scenes for the Palestinian athletes and Israeli team in the wake of the Israeli occupation's genocidal war in Gaza.
(2024-07-29). Hamas: Netanyahu keeps stalling Gaza truce deal with new terms. presstv.ir The Palestinian resistance movement says the Israeli prime minister is setting new conditions that mark a retreat from an earlier draft.
(2024-07-29). War of words as Erdogan says Turkey could intervene in Israel's war on Gaza. aljazeera.com Turkey again compares Netanyahu to Hitler; Israel says Erdogan 'following in the footsteps of Saddam Hussein'.
(2024-07-29). Israeli military police raid Sde Teiman prison, detain soldiers suspected of abusing Palestinian detainee. haaretz.com Israeli soldiers reportedly confronted the police and barricaded themselves, pepper spraying the military personnel that arrived to detain the suspects, and protesters broke into the detention center ‚ñ Sources said the soldiers were detained due to reports that they abused a Palestinian prisoner…
(2024-07-29). Yet Another Action to Demand Netanyahu's Arrest for War Crimes. indybay.org Close to a thousand in march from Federal Building to Israeli consulate…
(2024-07-29). Day 297 Updated: Deadly Israeli Airstrikes Continue Unchecked in Gaza. imemc.org Despite condemnation for having killed over 50 civilians, including many children in the bombing of a school on Saturday in Deir al-Balah, Israeli forces continued their assault on the entire civilian population of 2.24 million people in Gaza on Monday for the 297th straight day. Update:…
(2024-07-29). Algerian Judoka Disqualifies Himself to Avoid Facing Israeli Athlete. tn.ai TEHRAN (Tasnim) — Algerian judoka Messaoud Dris disqualified himself during the weigh-in on Monday, opting not to compete against Israeli judoka Tohar Butbul in the round of 16 at the Paris 2024 Olympics (under 73 kg).
(2024-07-29). Journalist casualties in the Israel-Gaza war. cpj.org
(2024-07-29). 10,000 students, 400 teachers killed in Gaza since October: Education Ministry. presstv.ir The Palestinian Education Ministry says Israel's genocidal war in Gaza has killed about 10,000 Palestinian students along with 400 teachers since October.
(2024-07-29). Palestinian man suffers from paralysis in Israeli prison. newarab.com 
A The man, 23-year-old Ibrahim Ammar Abbas from the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, was detained on 23 April 2023 at a military checkpoint near the town of Salfit in the West Bank. He was held…
(2024-07-29). Erdogan Suggests Turkey Might Intervene in Israel, Citing Libya and Karabakh. themedialine.org 
(2024-07-29). Lasting efforts on mediation reap success. ecns.cn China has made major moves over the past week aimed at brokering peace for two of the world's most prominent hot spot issues — the Ukraine crisis and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
(2024-07-29). Israel admits to invicibility of Hamas, likens Gaza tunnels to 'spider web'. presstv.ir Israel has likened the complexity of underground tunnel networks developed by Hamas in the Gaza Strip to a "spider web."
(2024-07-29). Gaza City-bound UN Aid Convoy Comes under Israeli Fire, Says UNRWA. transcend.org 22 Jul 2024 – A UN convoy has been hit by "heavy shooting" from Israeli forces at a checkpoint while en route to Gaza City, the United Nations agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, said today.
(2024-07-29). Saudi Arabia plans 92,000-capacity stadium in Riyadh. newarab.com 
The Saudi sports ministry unveiled the approved design for the stadium, which is scheduled to be completed in the fourth quarter of 2029, according to the state news agency SPA. | The stadium is set to serve as the main…
(2024-07-29). Joe Sacco's comics journalism: An antidote to Palestine apathy. newarab.com 
(2024-07-29). Iraq Awards $18B Baghdad Metro Project to European Firms. newarab.com 
Decades of
(2024-07-29). 35 killed as Pakistan tribal feud sparks sectarian fighting. newarab.com 
A land feud between tribes in northwestern The While no one was wounded in that attack, Hussain said it reignited longstanding religious tensions between the clan…
(2024-07-29). Iran-backed groups attack US coalition base in Syria. newarab.com 
After the Conoco gas base in
(2024-07-29). Jordan's Umm Al-Jimal added to UNESCO heritage list. newarab.com 
(2024-07-29). Ali Abunimah: Germany Is Threatening Me For My Talk About Palestine. popularresistance.org The situation here in the occupied West Bank has been horrible before 7 October but the level of horror amplified ten fold since. This increase in rate of home demolitions, land confiscation, killing of Palestinians, military and settler pogroms against our people, closing off of 12 ghettos/concentration camps created to store the unwanted indigenous people. All Palestinians are targets whether they miraculously remained in Palestine or are in exile diaspora. The Zionist movement is taking desperate measures to liquidate even the hope of liberation. Even the delusional hope of a two state "solution" is obliterate…
(2024-07-29). 'Soldiers! Soldiers! Soldiers!' The Kindergartners Of Al—Mughayyir. popularresistance.org The children of Palestine are striking for their curiosity and fearlessness. Small groups approached whenever I was out walking, often trailing me for several blocks, as they peppered me with questions: "Where are you from?" being the most common. It was generally followed by "How old are you?" | I thought the query about my age peculiar and even a bit cheeky until a teacher explained to me that it was among the standard questions they learn when studying English. | Inevitably the boldest among them would ask the one question they were most interested in knowing the answer to, especially coming from an American:…
(2024-07-29). Confrontation Of NATO Vs. SCO; Two Radically Different Summits. popularresistance.org Two major security alliances held summits in July. Each summit consisted of a bloc of major powers and nearby countries. Both alliances hold military exercises. Each summit meeting included guest and observer countries. | The two summits could not have been more different in tone and in purpose. | The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) met in Astana, Kazakhstan, on July 3-4, to discuss mutual cooperation. | A week later the North Atlantic Treaty Organization met in Washington, D.C., on July 9-11 to celebrate 75 years of militarism. At the meeting, NATO dared to demand Russia, China, Iran and the Democratic P…
(2024-07-29). Venezuela wins, Palestine wins: Samidoun congratulates Venezuelan people and President Nicolas Maduro on successful elections. samidoun.net 
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network salutes the people of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela on a successful, fair and transparent election, and congratulates President Nicolas Maduro on his re-election with 51.2% of the vote, announced shortly after midnight by the Consejo Nacional Electoral (CNE), the Venezuelan election authority. The victory of President Maduro is a …
(2024-07-29). Leaving Las Vegas. Inside the Last Tortured Days of the Biden Campaign. Seymour Hersh. globalresearch.ca In late 1967, as the Vietnam War was raging and President Lyndon B. Johnson was becoming increasingly unpopular, I was recruited to handle the press and write speeches for Senator Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota, the only Democrat gutsy enough to …
(2024-07-29). Xi holds talks with Timor-Leste's president. ecns.cn Chinese President Xi Jinping held talks with President of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste Jose Ramos-Horta on Monday.
(2024-07-29). Malaysia applies to join BRICS: PM Anwar. ecns.cn Malaysia has applied for the membership of the BRICS, the country's Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim announced in his post on X Sunday.
(2024-07-29). ASEAN FMs reaffirm unity, peace and cooperation. ecns.cn Foreign ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations concluded their 57th ministerial meeting on Saturday, reaffirming the bloc's commitment to implementing the ASEAN Community Vision 2025.
(2024-07-29). The New Russian-Iranian Gas Pipeline Memorandum Might be More About Optics Than Substance. globalresearch.ca The argument can be made that this is a mutually beneficial way to advance their respective ulterior interests and isn't as substantive as some might have initially thought due to the serious political and technical challenges that this project faces. …
(2024-07-29). CADTM statement on repression in Bangladesh. cadtm.org
(2024-07-29). Tax justice in Pakistan. cadtm.org
(2024-07-29). Aleida March Kisses and Tells All in New Memoir about Che Guevara, Herself and the Cuban Revolution. counterpunch.org 
In one of her best-known songs, Tina Turner, the "Queen of Rock 'n' Roll," asks, "What's love got to do with it?" For Che "it" was everything. His second wife, Aleida March, provides much the same idea in her story of romance and revolution, perhaps the most romantic of reveries. Now 87 and older than
(2024-07-29). The South Korean 'Spy' Affair. John Kiriakou. globalresearch.ca The
(2024-07-29). 'Sign of Things to Come': Singapore Approves 16 Insects for Human Food. globalresearch.ca
(2024-07-29). The US Pressures Armenia to Buy Gas From Azerbaijan Instead of Russia. globalresearch.ca
(2024-07-29). Afghanistan: Stable electricity supply elevates health care at Mirwais Regional Hospital. icrc.org
(2024-07-29). Iraq: Photography Award 2024. icrc.org International Committee of the Red Cross & Iraqi Red Crescent Society…
(2024-07-29). Working together to address Africa's health challenges and to achieve sustainable development goals (SDGs). icrc.org —ICRC holds session at the Global Health Forum of Boao Forum for Asia…
(2024-07-29). Azerbaijan: Family receives remains of missing loved one, honours with a burial after 30 years. icrc.org
(2024-07-29). Bangladesh: 15th Henry Dunant Memorial Moot Court Competition 2024 — Call for Registration. icrc.org
(2024-07-29). Moldova – US Relations, More Important than Ever. indybay.org With a population of 3.3 million, the landlocked Republic of Moldova bordered by Ukraine and Romania first became independent with the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991. Since that time in its formative growth, it has suffered many challenges in establishing itself as an independent democratic nation through political, ethnic, social and economic changes.
(2024-07-29). Tuesday 7/30: Virtual Teach-In about Palestine. indybay.org Zoom | http: //tinyurl.com/PalestineTuesday…
(2024-07-29). Friday 8/2: Webinar: Palestine Solidarity Announcements. indybay.org Zoom | bit.ly/FridayPSAs…
(2024-07-29). UK seeks new trade deals with Gulf countries as PM meets Qatari emir in Paris. middleeasteye.net 
(2024-07-29). Masoud Pezeshkian formally endorsed as Iran's president by supreme leader. muslimmirror.com TEHRAN : Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei formally endorsed Masoud Pezeshkian as the country's new president on Sunday, weeks after his victory in the presidential election. At a ceremony in Tehran, attended by top-ranking political and military leaders as well as foreign diplomats, the supreme leader handed over the signed decree to Pezeshkian. The …
(2024-07-29). Medical workers tell Illinois audience of the horrors they witnessed in Gaza. peoplesworld.org 
PEORIA, Ill.—Medical professionals who served in Gaza amidst the ongoing genocidal war brought the truth about what they saw to Illinois Central College in a free lecture organized by Peoria for Palestine on July 19. The stories they shared were eye-opening for the notably diverse audience, shedding light on the seemingly insurmountable challenges faced by …
(2024-07-29). India and Saudi Arabia review investment promotion measures. plenglish.com New Delhi, Jul 29 (Prensa Latina) India and Saudi Arabia reviewed in detail the measures to promote bilateral investments for mutual benefit to realize opportunities in various areas of the public and private sectors, officials said.
(2024-07-29). Presidents of China and Timor-Leste expand pragmatic cooperation. plenglish.com Beijing, Jul 29 (Prensa Latina) Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Timorese counterpart, Jose Ramos Horta, called to expand practical cooperation between the two countries in this capital on Monday.
(2024-07-29). 3rd World March for Peace and Nonviolence: Landmark Bahria Cup Girls Football Festival 2024 in Lahore, Pakistan. pressenza.com 
by: Irshad Ahmad Mughal | To ensure girls participation in the 3rd World March for Peace and Nonviolence, the Landmark Bahria Town Girl's Football Festival, 2024 was organized in Bahria Town, Lahore, Pakistan. | In this event, three town football academies participated: (1) Bahria town football academy Lahore, (2) Valencia town football academy, Lahore, and (3) Sialkot City football academy, Sialkot. | Here are the girls who participated in the football festival: Bahria town football academy, Lahore. Valencia town football academy, Lahore. Sialkot City football academy, Sialkot. Miss Asma Khawar Khawaja (CEO Gray…
(2024-07-29). Samsung Electronics union workers strike for higher pay, more benefits. presstv.ir Members of a Samsung Electronics union have staged a rally in their continued strike in South Korea, demanding higher wages and improved benefits.
(2024-07-29). Tehran preparing for Pezeshkian inauguration as foreign dignitaries arrive en masse. presstv.ir High-ranking dignitaries from different countries arrive in the Iranian capital Tehran to take part in President Masoud Pezeshkian's inauguration ceremony.
(2024-07-29). Iraqis protest over summer blackouts, water shortages. presstv.ir Hundreds of Iraqis in the southern province of Diwaniyah protest against power cuts and water shortages during the extreme heat of summer.
(2024-07-29). Hundreds join pro-Palestine rally in Sydney attempting to disrupt NSW Labour conference. presstv.ir Hundreds joined pro-Palestine rally outside Sydney Town Hall demanding Australia's PM Albanese to speak for ceasefire in Gaza.
(2024-07-29). Body cam footage shows white US police shooting unarmed Black woman. presstv.ir Sean Grayson, 30, fired three shots, striking Sonya Massey one time in the face.
(2024-07-29). Enhanced ties among independent nations key to fight unilateralism: Pezeshkian. presstv.ir President Pezeshkian met with senior state officials from several countries in Tehran ahead of his official inuguration.
(2024-07-29). Iraqis protest over summer blackouts, water shortages. presstv.ir Hundreds of Iraqis in the southern province of Diwaniyah protest against power cuts and water shortages during the extreme heat of summer.
(2024-07-29). US-occupied military base comes under fresh missile strike in east Syria. presstv.ir A military facility occupied by US forces in Syria's eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr has come under a fresh missile attack.
(2024-07-29). Iran: 'Successful' election in Venezuela indicates democratic process 'institutionalized'. presstv.ir Iranian Foreign Ministry congratulates Venezuela on the "successful" holding of the presidential election that saw President Nicolas Maduro re-elected.
(2024-07-29). IRGC seizes Togo-flagged tanker during smuggling attempt. presstv.ir Iran's IRGC Navy seizes a Togo-flagged tanker attempting to smuggle hundreds of liters of oil out of the country.
(2024-07-29). Leader formally endorses Masoud Pezeshkian as Iran's 9th president. presstv.ir Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei formally endorses Masoud Pezeshkian as Iran's new president.
(2024-07-29). Most important economic legacy of Iran's outgoing government. presstv.ir A comparison of economic variables at the time of the change of administration in 2021 and now shows that Iran's oil exports have reached the highest level over the past six years.
(2024-07-29). Body cam footage shows white US police shooting unarmed Black woman. presstv.ir Sean Grayson, 30, fired three shots, striking Sonya Massey one time in the face.
(2024-07-29). Iran Juduciary holds 2nd court hearing on US-backed terror outfits in West Asia. presstv.ir The Iranian Judiciary has held a second court hearing on complaints brought by the families of those who embraced martyrdom in the fight against US-backed Takfiri terrorist groups in Iraq and Syria, known as Defenders of the Holy Shrine.
(2024-07-29). Iran, Gambia restore diplomatic ties after 14 years. presstv.ir Tehran and Banjul agreed to develop cordial relations based on the principles of mutual respect and equality as well as common interests.
(2024-07-29). Hundreds join pro-Palestine rally in Sydney attempting to disrupt NSW Labour conference. presstv.ir Hundreds joined pro-Palestine rally outside Sydney Town Hall demanding Australia's PM Albanese to speak for ceasefire in Gaza.
(2024-07-29). Samsung Electronics union workers strike for higher pay, more benefits. presstv.ir Members of a Samsung Electronics union have staged a rally in their continued strike in South Korea, demanding higher wages and improved benefits.
(2024-07-29). Primer ministro de Cuba en Irán para investidura de Masoud Pezeshkian (+Foto). radiohc.cu Teherán, 29 jul (RHC) El primer ministro de Cuba, Manuel Marrero Cruz, arribó este lunes a esta capital para participar en la toma de posesión del presidente de Irán, Masoud Pezeshkian, programada para mañana.
(2024-07-29). China Designs an Economic Road Map All the Way to 2029. transcend.org 22 Jul 2024 – There can hardly be a better place to track the four-day, twice-a-decade plenum of the Communist Party of China than dynamic, "one country, two systems" Hong Kong.
(2024-07-29). Malaysia writes to Russia on its intention to join the BRICS. tvbrics.com 
The country expressed its readiness to become a strategic partner of the union…
(2024-07-29). Russia claims capture of 2 villages in Ukraine's Donetsk region. scmp.com Ukraine's president acknowledged Kyiv's forces were under pressure as Russians advanced in the war-torn region.
(2024-07-29). US discusses Ukraine peace with India amid reports of Modi's planned visit. scmp.com While Western countries sanctioned Moscow after Ukraine invasion, nations friendly with Russia — such as India and China — continue to trade.
(2024-07-29). Russian Orientalist Kirill Semenov: "To avoid new refugees, a hybrid administrative system for the regions in Syria returned to Assad is needed" uwidata.com 
By Edvard Chesnokov On July 25, 2024, the Turkish authorities arrested and deported to Moscow the Russian national Evgeny Serebryakov, an alleged terrorist who had exploded the car of a high-ranked Russian Army officer in Moscow and fled to Bodrum the very previous day, July 24. Assumably Serbebryakov followed the commands of the NATO-backed Ukrainian …
(2024-07-29). US discusses Ukraine peace with India amid reports of Modi's planned visit. scmp.com While Western countries sanctioned Moscow after Ukraine invasion, nations friendly with Russia — such as India and China — continue to trade.
(2024-07-29). Russia claims capture of 2 villages in Ukraine's Donetsk region. scmp.com Ukraine's president acknowledged Kyiv's forces were under pressure as Russians advanced in the war-torn region.
(2024-07-29). US, Japan agree to biggest boost to military cooperation in decades. wsws.org The steps announced Sunday build on the agreement US President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida reached at their April summit in Washington.
(2024-07-29). US, Japan agree to biggest boost to military cooperation in decades. wsws.org The steps announced Sunday build on the agreement US President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida reached at their April summit in Washington.
(2024-07-29). Journalist, novelist, workers and youth in Sri Lanka demand freedom for Bogdan Syrotiuk. wsws.org "Because Bogdan's ideas directly go against President Zelensky's reactionary policies and the war, he has been put into jail."
(2024-07-29). Journalist, novelist, workers and youth in Sri Lanka demand freedom for Bogdan Syrotiuk. wsws.org "Because Bogdan's ideas directly go against President Zelensky's reactionary policies and the war, he has been put into jail."
(2024-07-29). Belarus: Stop the execution of Rico Krieger. fidh.org The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), Viasna and the undersigned organizations call on the Belarusian authorities to stop the execution of German national Rico Krieger, sentenced to death in Belarus on 24 June 2024.
Paris, 22 July 2024. On 24 June, German national Rico Krieger was sentenced to death by firing squad by the Minsk Regional Court in a secretive trial. As reported by Human Rights Center Viasna, Krieger, a former employee of the German Red Cross, was inter alia (…) | – |
(2024-07-29). Malaysia says bid to join China-led Brics group has Russia's backing. scmp.com Russia's Foreign Affairs Minister Sergey Lavrov made the assurance to Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim during his two-day visit to Malaysia this weekend, Malaysia's foreign ministry said.
(2024-07-29). Kudos to China for helping open the door to Palestinian unity. scmp.com The Beijing Declaration reflects China's aim to project itself as a credible power and peace enabler in West Asia.
(2024-07-29). India Today Ranking 2024: AMU 1st in "Best Colleges of India" list. ummid.com The Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) has secured the first place in the India Today Ranking 2024 of the "Best Colleges of India" published in its July special issue recently.
(2024-07-29). Mazin Mansoor, Iram Quazi among 17 in NEET UG 2024 Revised Toppers List. ummid.com Mazin Mansoor and Iram Quazi are among the 17 medical aspirants who are in the NEET UG 2024 revised toppers list released by the National Testing Agency (NTA) Saturday.
(2024-07-29). Supreme Court rejects NEET UG 2024 re-test. ummid.com The Supreme Court of India Tuesday July 23, 2024 rejected the demands to order re-examination of National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (Undergraduate) or NEET (UG) 2024.
(2024-07-29). JMM Protests Against BJP's Union Territory Proposal. devdiscourse.com The ruling JMM on Monday protested outside the assembly against BJP MP Nishikant Dubey's statement in the Lok Sabha, where he demanded parts of Jharkhand, West Bengal, and Bihar be declared a Union Territory to check infiltration from Bangladesh.
(2024-07-29). Turkey approves controversial stray dog cull. scmp.com The euthanasia clause adopted on Monday says dogs will be put down if they "present a danger to the life or health of people and animals".
(2024-07-29). Health Industry Shifts: Alzheimer's Drug Rejection & Weight Loss Market Race. devdiscourse.com Japan's Eisai saw an 11% share drop, marking its largest one-day fall in three years after the European Union's drug regulator rejected its Alzheimer's treatment, Leqembi. The rejection was due to concerns about serious brain swelling outweighing the drug's minor cognitive benefits.
(2024-07-29). Bangladesh: Crackdown on students was brutal, overkill. ummid.com The helms of affairs of government and security agencies in Bangladesh during the rage of countrywide student protests in the last seven days, in panic, overreacted.
(2024-07-29). Corporate Tax cut has historically failed to boost growth. ummid.com Budget 2024 Analysis: Corporate tax cuts have been found to have an insignificant to zero effect on economic growth.
(2024-07-29). Delhi LG Vows Action After Tragic Flooding Incident. devdiscourse.com Delhi Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena visited the coaching hub of Old Rajinder Nagar on Monday, engaging with students protesting the tragic deaths of three civil services aspirants. The students voiced their concerns about the flooding that led to the incident.
(2024-07-29). 3 Bangladeshi journalists killed in quota protests as reporters attacked, internet blocked. Arlene Getz/CPJ Editorial Director
(2024-07-29). Iran Restates Support for Venezuela As Maduro Wins Election. tn.ai TEHRAN (Tasnim) — The Iranian Foreign Ministry hailed the successful, transparent and democratic presidential election in Venezuela that led to victory for Nicolas Maduro, expressing Iran's support for the South American nation in pursuing progress.
(2024-07-29). India's First Shooting Medalist in Paris: Manu Bhaker Makes History. devdiscourse.com In a proud moment for India, the Lok Sabha on Monday applauded markswoman Manu Bhaker for securing a bronze medal at the Paris Olympics. Bhaker has etched her name in history by ending India's 12-year wait for an Olympic shooting medal, clinching bronze in the 10m air pistol event.
(2024-07-29). Manu Bhaker Wins Historic Bronze Medal in Paris Olympics 2024. devdiscourse.com Following Manu Bhaker's historic bronze medal in the Paris Olympics 2024, Union Sports Minister Mansukh Mandaviya praised the shooter and outlined the substantial efforts and investments that contributed to her victory. Bhaker secured her bronze medal in the Women's Air Pistol event on Sunday, making her the first Indian woman to achieve such a feat in shooting at the Olympics.
(2024-07-29). Devotees Flock to Pashupatinath for Sacred Shrawan Sombar Worship. devdiscourse.com Thousands of Hindu devotees flocked to Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu to observe 'Shrawan Sombar,' a significant event in the Nepali month of Shrawan dedicated to Lord Shiva. The month is considered sacred by devotees, with women adorning green, yellow, and red bangles and beads while keeping fasts.
(2024-07-29). Turkish Kurdish photojournalist Murat Yazar detained for 8 days in Iraqi Kurdistan. ajansbalikligol.com
(2024-07-29). Governments Alarmed as 50-100k Pakistani Workers Flee To Live in Iraq. themedialine.org 
(2024-07-29). Kudos to China for helping open the door to Palestinian unity. scmp.com The Beijing Declaration reflects China's aim to project itself as a credible power and peace enabler in West Asia.
(2024-07-29). Stomach grumbles: Japan's eateries catch heat over higher tourist prices. aljazeera.com Some Japanese businesses are charging multiple times their usual prices amid a record influx of tourists.
(2024-07-29). North Korea mobilises military for flood rescue. aljazeera.com Natural disasters have a greater impact on the isolated and impoverished North Korea due to its weak infrastructure.
(2024-07-29). ANITA AMONG: I am going no where. independent.co.ug 
Mbarara, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Speaker of Parliament Anita Annet Among, has dismissed the anti-corruption protesters targeting parliament, and stated that she is not willing to step down from her position. Speaking at the thanksgiving function for Mzee Daudi Bangirana, father of Deputy Speaker Thomas Tayebwa, at Rwakitandara Playground in Bitereko Sub County, …
(2024-07-29). Cervoz to Showcase Cutting-Edge Technologies at AUTOMATION EXPO2024. devdiscourse.com Cervoz is thrilled to announce its participation in the AUTOMATION EXPO2024, scheduled from August 21st to 24th at BEC, Mumbai, India. Attendees are encouraged to visit Cervoz's booth (E15A, Hall 1) to explore the latest industrial-grade storage, memory, and expansion solutions.
(2024-07-29). Indian Shooters Aim for Gold After Manu Bhaker's Historic Bronze. devdiscourse.com Following Manu Bhaker's historic bronze in the women's 10 m air pistol event, Indian shooters Ramita Jindal and Arjun Babuta are set to compete in the final round of the 10 m air rifle events on Monday. Bhaker's win marks India's first-ever shooting medal by a woman.
(2024-07-29). West Bengal Limits Potato Shipments Amid Price Surge. devdiscourse.com West Bengal, one of India's largest potato producers, has placed restrictions on shipments to neighboring states due to a significant rise in local prices, an official stated on Monday. The state intends to stabilize retail prices at Rs 30 per kg before resuming shipments.
(2024-07-29). Will India Remain Secular? ummid.com It (persmission for government employees to join RSS) is not a matter that can be accepted as an official whim or fancy. It has huge constitutional implications putting under a cloud the very nature of the republic.
(2024-07-29). Thailand: Anon Nampa sentenced to four more years in prison. fidh.org
(2024-07-29). Is Mid-Term Polls Only Option Left in Bangladesh? ummid.com In an interview with Indian English daily, The Hindu, Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus suggested that Bangladesh should hold a mid-term election within a 'short time' to overcome the crisis by restoring democracy with a public mandate.
(2024-07-29). North Korea uses military helicopters to rescue thousands from floods. aljazeera.com Leader Kim Jong Un chastises officials for their failure to prepare and respond to recent torrential rain.
(2024-07-29). Outside the Box: The Hardening Truth about Soft Power. fairobserver.com "I can't escape the feeling that this episode further damaged the standing of the US across the globe. It represents the aggravation of a trend. Many of my friends in India, for example, were already deeply appalled at the way the US has handled its wars in the Middle East over the past two decades,…
(2024-07-29). Congress Urges Parliamentary Discussion on China Border Dispute and Trade Deficit. devdiscourse.com On Monday, Congress MP Manish Tewari submitted an adjournment notice in the Lok Sabha to prompt a discussion on India's border situation and the significant trade deficit with China. In a letter to the Secretary-General of the Lok Sabha, Tewari underscored ongoing border clashes since 2019 and highlighted China's rejection of the Seva tunnel inauguration, asserting its claim over parts of Arunachal Pradesh.
(2024-07-29). Foreign Tanker Smuggling Oil Seized by Iran. tn.ai TEHRAN (Tasnim) — The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy's forces captured a Togo-flagged oil tanker for smuggling petroleum in the Persian Gulf.
(2024-07-29). FIDH calls on the International Olympic Committee to address human rights violations in Palestine. fidh.org
(2024-07-29). Erdogan says Turkey could intervene in Gaza war. aljazeera.com Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said his country could intervene in the war on Gaza.
(2024-07-29). New Iranian President Invited to BRICS Summit in Russia. tn.ai TEHRAN (Tasnim) — The Kremlin confirmed that incoming Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has been invited to attend a summit of BRICS in Kazan, Russia, slated for October.
(2024-07-29). Turkey approves controversial stray dog cull. scmp.com The euthanasia clause adopted on Monday says dogs will be put down if they "present a danger to the life or health of people and animals".
(2024-07-29). Malaysia says bid to join China-led Brics group has Russia's backing. scmp.com Russia's Foreign Affairs Minister Sergey Lavrov made the assurance to Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim during his two-day visit to Malaysia this weekend, Malaysia's foreign ministry said.
(2024-07-29). BJP's Bansuri Swaraj Criticizes AAP's Alleged Negligence in Deaths of IAS Aspirants. devdiscourse.com In a scathing attack on the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Bansuri Swaraj on Monday attributed the deaths of three IAS aspirants in Delhi to the 'utter and absolute apathy' of the local administration. The incident has cast a shadow on the capital's governance.
(2024-07-29). Calls Grow to Repatriate Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose's Remains from Japan. devdiscourse.com Chandra Kumar Bose, the grandnephew of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, has appealed to the Indian Union Government to repatriate the freedom fighter's remains from Japan's Renkoji temple by August 18, Netaji's death anniversary.
(2024-07-29). Paris Olympics: Fijiana sevens on thin ice after losing two games. asiapacificreport.nz 
By Iliesa Tora, RNZ Pacific senior sports journalist The Fijiana women's sevens rugby team have lost both pool matches at the Paris Olympics today and look set to miss the quarterfinals in the process. Bronze medallists at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, the Fijians lost 17-14 to Canada in their first pool game. China then handed…
(2024-07-29). Shot in the eyes, victims of Bangladesh protest violence face dark future. aljazeera.com Hundreds of protesters and bystanders were hit in the eyes by pellets fired by security forces, and might lose vision.
(2024-07-29). Bangladesh: PM Sheikh Hasina Govt on Trial. ummid.com Never before in the history of Bangladesh (since 1972), in any student uprising, anti-government movement or people's revolt so much blood has been spilt in street violence.
(2024-07-29). Radhika Desai: Peak Hindutva? newleftreview.org As Modi's BJP loses its overall majority, Radhika Desai examines the part played by India's capitalist conglomerates in his rise—and the contradictions on which their strategy has foundered. The economic crisis of the parched countryside as brake on Hindutva's forward march.
(2024-07-29). EU Foreign Policy chief Josep Borrell should call for the immediate release of environmental rights defenders in Vietnam. fidh.org
(2024-07-29). Minuto a minuto del asedio israelí contra la Franja de Gaza. telesurtv.net En varios países continúan realizándose actividades para expresar apoyo al pueblo palestino y condenar el genocidio que comete Israel.
(2024-07-29). Narendra Modi celebra su victoria en las elecciones generales. telesurtv.net Narendra Modi necesitará el apoyo de otros partidos para gobernar, algo inédito en sus anteriores mandatos.
(2024-07-29). Agencia de la ONU condenó desplazamiento forzado de gazatíes. radiohc.cu Ramala, 29 julio (RHC) El ejército israelí desplazó por la fuerza a unos 200 mil palestinos la pasada semana en la Franja de Gaza, criticó hoy la Oficina de las Naciones Unidas para la Coordinación de Asuntos Humanitarios (OCHA).
(2024-07-29). Irán inicia etapa de calificación de candidatos a elecciones. telesurtv.net Tras el proceso de investigación, el Ministerio del Interior anunciará los candidatos finales el 11 de junio, y los calificados tendrán 15 días, del 12 al 26 de junio, para llevar a cabo sus campañas electorales.
(2024-07-29). ONU condena más de 500 asesinatos de palestinos en Cisjordania. telesurtv.net Más de 500 palestinos han muerto desde el 7 de octubre en actos de violencia en la ocupada Cisjordania vinculados al asedio del Ejército israelí de ocupación en Gaza.
(2024-07-29). Presidente de Siria recibe a canciller de Irán. telesurtv.net Ambos políticos debatieron sobre el estado de las relaciones bilaterales, así como el avance de la agresión de Israel en la Franja de Gaza.
Palestinians walk along a street covered with stagnant wastewater near tents sheltering displaced people in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, 22 July. Omar Ashtawy APA images) As Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu traveled to Washington, where he will deliver a speech to Congress on Wednesday, the Israeli military massacred Palestinians throughout Gaza and forced a new …
Israeli Air Force Commander Tomer Bar said preparations for a possible war against Hezbollah in Lebanon had been completed, warning there would be "surprises". | Bar made the announcement during a meeting with the heads of northern Israeli towns and settlements at the Ramat David Air Base, which The latest video, captured by the "Hoopoe" drone, also shared information about the base's co…
The response to Joe Biden finally surrendering the Democratic presidential nomination has been instructive. | Since Israel's genocidal rampage in Gaza began, there has been a common theme in how Western politicians and media outlets have approached the horror: that Palestinian life has little or even no meaningful worth. This has not been subtle. | Sure, this has ranged from the crude — that is, outright genocidal incitement, despite its legal prohibition in the 1948 Genocide Convention — to the lack of concern about tens of thousands slaughtered with Western arms and diplomatic support, not least…
Via Rashida Tlaib's X account. By Brett Wilkins / Common Dreams Following her call for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's arrest during his visit to Washington, D.C., U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib protested the right-wing leader's Wednesday address before a joint meeting of Congress by holding up a sign reading "war criminal" and "guilty of genocide." "They will not erase …
Craig Mokhiber discusses the importance and impact of the International Court of Justice's ruling that the Israeli occupation of Palestine is illegal.
Netanyahu will also meet Vice President Kamala Harris — the likely…
Israel offered Mohammed Dahlan 'keys to Gaza' in 2002, newly released files show | Dahlan, who declined the offer, is said to be favoured by some US, Israeli and Arab officials to now lead post-war Gaza, a role he says he would also refuse | | Mohammed Dahlan with a portrait of Palestinian lea…
Only 27 athletes have ever represented Palestine at the Olympic Games as the Palestinian Olympic Committee was not recognised by the International Olympic Committee until 1995. | Majed Abu Maraheel was the first to represent Palestine in the 1996 Games in Atlanta. | 
The reason behind the delay is reportedly due to The offici…
A Israeli fighter jets struck Houthi military targets near Yemen's port of Hodeidah on Saturday, killing at least nine people and wounding 87, a day after a Houthi drone hit Israe…
Representatives from Hamas, Fatah, and other Palestinian factions signed a joint statement with China's mediation, agreeing to end years of divisions and form a national unity government. | According to the Gaza Health Ministry, more than 39,000 Palestinians have been killed and roughly 90,000 wounded since the start of the conflict. For Israel, as many as 1800 dead with 116 kidnapped Israelis whose fates remain unknown. | Joining the discussion: | 
Paris 2024: Olympics begins under shadow of Israeli obliteration of Palestinian sport | Palestinian athletes and administrators talk about Israel's killing of sports stars and destruction of facilities in Gaza | | Children watch as displaced Palestinians play football in the courtyard of…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed a joint session of Congress on Tuesday, March 3, 2015. (U.S. Congress/Wikimedia Commons) By Joe Lauria / Consortium News The world-historical crisis in Gaza might in the long-term bring about radical change in both the U.S. and Israel, but in the interim the greatest crimes the two nations have jointly …
As Israel's brutal offensive on Gaza nears its tenth month causing an ever-worsening humanitarian catastrophe and creating fears of a wider regional war, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was receiving praise during his trip to the United States, which has provided crucial military and political support for the war. | The premier — 
The false claims Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu made in his address to US Congress | In his speech, Netanyahu claimed that Israel is facilitating entry of aid into Gaza and safeguarding civilians | | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a joint meeting of Congress at…
Reports emerged last week that an Since Israel 
Absent lawmakers replaced by stand-ins to create false impression as pro-Israel stooges fawn over Israeli PM's litany of lies More than half of Democratic party politicians in the US Congress and Senate boycotted Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu's litany of lies masquerading as a speech to fawning supporters. All was not as it seemed as the …
By Michael Brenner EUROPE -JEWS-MUSLIMS Europe has an obsession about Jews. For nearly 2 millennia, it shunned them, despised them and persecuted them. Now, after a respite of a few decades, it condemns and abuses Muslims in a similar way — all in the name of supporting Jews. Israel's inhumane treatment of the Palestinians — …
The head of the Palestine Olympic Committee criticised "double standards" from the Palestinian Olympic head Jibril Rajoub demanded a boycott in a letter to the IOC earlier this week which was rejected by the head of the international Olympics body, Thomas Bach. | "This confirms that there are internatio…
By Glenn Sacks / GlennSacks Jewish Democrats are deeply divided on Israel's actions in the Israel-Hamas War in Gaza. Republicans have seized on the events following Hamas' October 7 attack on Israel as a wedge issue they can use to win Jewish votes in November, and they designed the newly-released 2024 GOP PLATFORM: MAKE AMERICA …
Israel's Olympic flag-carrier wrote message on bomb bound for Gaza | Peter Paltchik was also filmed disrupting a Palestine protest in Japan earlier this year | | Israel's Peter Paltchik during the Tel Aviv Grand Slam Judo Championship in Tel Aviv on 19 February 2022 (Jack Guez/AFP) | Pro-Palestinian…
As Israel's genocidal campaign against Palestinians continues, so does the theft of Palestinian land. Real estate events that sell off illegal settlements acquired through settler violence in the West Bank happen in the U.S. with the aid and permission from local elected leaders.
WASHINGTON—Despite heavy security which prevented them from surrounding the U.S. Capitol, thousands of protesters jammed Washington's Pennsylvania Avenue to denounce Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a mass march Wednesday. They declared him "a war criminal," demanded his arrest, and blasted U.S. aid to and complicity with his ongoing genocidal war on Gaza. The protests …
If truth and justice are the most potent weapons in the arsenal of the oppressed … — Norman Finkelstein What is the life of a Palestinian worth? Is it worth an em in an editorial in the pages of the Afghanistan News Monitor? | Wh…
Exclusive: UK likely to restrict arms sales to Israel and drop ICC objection | MEE has learnt that the Labour government is likely to announce some restrictions on arms sales to Israel, but not suspend them entirely | | Prime Minister Keir Starmer has previously called for a ceasefire in Gaz…
The Densely overpopulated neighbourhoods and cities are just one of many complex crises 
India's silver and platinum imports from the The world's second-biggest bullion consumer slashed import duties on gold and silver on Tuesday to six percent from 15 percent. | After the reduction, there is no incentive to bring silver or platinum into India under the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) sign…
Eight member states of the The letter, originally seen by Euractiv, was signed by the foreign ministers of Austria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Greece, 
Sheikheh, one of seven men first arrested in the case more than 14 years ago, was put to death in Urmia prison in northwestern Iran, the Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR) and US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) said in separate statements. | Sheikheh's six co-defendants, also members of Iran's Kurdish minority, had all been executed in separate hangings since November 202…
The world is appalled at the bodycam footage released on July 22 of the police killing of Sonya Massey, a 36-year-old Black woman from Springfield, Illinois. She was murdered by Sangamon County sheriffs on July 6 after she called them for assistance for a possible prowler lurking outside her home. . . . | 
Iranian press review: Activists challenge Pezeshkian's stance on gender equality | Meanwhile, report reveals former government purged schools of moderate teachers, the president's remarks about election boycotters fuel criticism, and experts warn about alarming addiction rates | 
Source: demerzel21 / Getty | This Dr. Pettigrew is making major moves! This powerhouse media mogul, and CEO of Root Branch Media Group, is reclaiming…
The ZWCN-Ph comprises government officials from Zero Waste Cities sites across the Philippines, including San Fernando in Pampanga, Malabon, and San Juan in Metro Manila, Brgy. Tanza in Navotas City, and Pilar in Bataan, along with Roxas City in Capiz, Siquijor Province and Brgy. Apo Island in Dauin, and Negros Oriental. It is part of a global campaign to mainstream Zero Waste practices as the optimal solution to waste management problems such as the plastic crisis, debunking the misconstrued idea that trash incineration helps eliminate waste. Jet Suguitan, MENRO of Pilar, Bataan. | "The Philippine Zero Waste Cit…
22 July 2024, Manila City/Quezon City. To express its solidarity with the Department of Education (DepEd) and the education sector as a whole, the EcoWaste Coalition participated in the Brigada Eskwela at Manila High School (MHS), one of the oldest schools in the nation's capital. It drew enthusiastic participants from the faculty, non-teaching personnel, parents, and students. | At the opening program preceding the cleanup, the EcoWaste Coalition led an interactive activity to introduce the basic principles and practices of ecological solid waste management (ESWM) in line with RA 9003, or the Ecological Solid W…
Keir Starmer's 'left-wing' Labour Party government said on Thursday 25 July it had deported 46 people to Vietnam and East Timor, after ditching the previous Conservative Party administration's plan to send migrants to Rwanda. As people pointed out on X, the underhandedness and hypocrisy of these Labour deportation flights was clear to see. Labour: we …
By Kaneta Naimatau in Suva In a democracy, citizens must critically evaluate issues based on facts. However in a very polarised society, people focus more on who is speaking than what is being said. This was highlighted by journalism Professor Cherian George of the Hong Kong Baptist University as he delivered his keynote address during…
July 24, 2024, 
The International Court of Justice has again deliberated over the thorn-bloodied subject of Israeli-Palestinian relations. Its latest advisory opinion, sought by the UN General Assembly early last year, was unremarkably conventional though nonetheless affirming: a finding that Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, along with "the regime associated with them, have been established and are being 
Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in the US in his first trip abroad since Israel launched its genocidal assault on Gaza, which, according to a new International Court of Justice finding, it already occupied through "effective control" in a land, air and sea blockade, along with restrictions on Palestinians in Gaza's movement, construction, resources, […] | By 
The New York Times and the rest of the U.S. mainstream media downplayed, covered up, and even ignored the historic ICJ opinion declaring the Israeli occupation illegal.
Israeli forces killed a Palestinian young man and shot others, including a child in the Qalandia refugee camp north of occupied Jerusalem. On Wednesday morning, occupation forces shot killed the young man, Ahmad Nidal Aslan,20, in addition to six others, and detonated the home of a slain Palestinian, in the Qalandia camp. Media sources said …
Hezbollah in Lebanon and the On 9 July, Hezbollah released drone footage it had taken of military and intelligence sites in northern Israel and the occupied Golan Heights less than a month after 
Most lawmakers explained their boycott by focusing on the Israeli prime minister himself as a bad actor, rather than the system he represents.
In partnership with ⚪ | This investigation, conducted by Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism, is part of The clock had not yet struck midnight on October 9, when Said Al-Taweel fell into a deep sleep in his office in al-Ghefari Tower, Gaza City's tallest building. Alaa Abu Mohsen, Al-Taweel'
Just weeks before the international climate summit in Dubai, one of the biggest climate agreements ever proposed between Middle Eastern countries unraveled. | For two years, Israel and Jordan had negotiated a trade of precious resources they'll need in a hotter future: renewable energy and drinking water. Under their proposed deal, Israel would dip into its water surplus to send its neighbor billions of gallons each year. In return, Jordan would share electricity from a new 600-megawatt solar farm in its sun-soaked desert. | The plan, dubbed Project Prosperity, had the financial support of the United Arab Emir…
Israel, the US and the According to the report by Axios, which cited two Israeli officials, the discussions were hosted by 
The Documents uncovered by Peace Now illustrate how Israel's pro-settler government has quietly poured money into the unauthorized outposts, which are separate…
Deputy Minister of Agriculture Mahdi Sahar al-Jubouri told Reuters the country has earmarked 150 sq km (58 sq miles) for rice growing this season and forecast a yield of 150,000 tonnes, as officials said water is more abundant due to h…
As US Vice President A shortlist has emerged of potential contenders that her campaign has reportedly contacted for background evaluations. The consensus is that Harris, a Black and South Asian woman from northern California, should pick a white man from a rural state to balance out the ticket. | "
Mosul, located 465 km northwest of Baghdad on the west bank of the Tigris River, is the main city of Nineveh Governorate. It sits directly across from the ancient city of Nineveh and Jonah's Tomb, also known as Al-Nabi Yunus Mosque. | Strategically positioned, throughout history Mosul has connected China, the Mediterranean, Anatolia, and Mesopotamia as a crucial hub for trade and learning. Its Arabic name, meaning By the 6th century, Mosul had become a significant centre for the Assyrian Church of the East,…
Security forces in Sulaimaniyah province of the According to a statement obtained by The New Arab, the Anti-Drug Directorate of the Kurdistan Region's Security Agency confiscated 44 books that were filled with liquid amphetamine, commonly known as crystal meth. The operation, based o…
Hit pause right there. Very few people have tuned into the fact that what is happening isn't "NATO" moving into our region — it's actually far bigger than that. The US is creating a super-bloc, a super-alliance of client states that includes both the EU and NATO, the AP4 (its key Asia Pacific partners Australia, 
The accident site of a Saurya Airlines plane that caught fire after skidding off the runway while taking off is cordoned at Tribhuvan International Airport, in Kathmandu, Nepal on July 24, 2024. — Reuters
US Assistant Secretary of State Donald Lu testifies before a subcommitte of the US House Committee on Foreign Affairs. — House Foreign Affairs Committee Republicans Youtube/file Lu says US focused on supporting human rights in Pakistan.Funds to be used to combat terrorism, support…
Security personnel and rickshaw pullers move past a partially damaged government building, that was set afire by a mob during clashes after violence erupted following protests by students against government job quotas, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, July 22, 2024. — Reuters Govt says it would…
The investments generate money for the government but harm local populationsOriginally published on China controls over 75 percent of Tajikistan's output of gold and for the last 30 years, it has remained the biggest foreign investor in the country's There are currently 40 known gold deposits in the country…
Clifton D'Rozario discusses Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's role as a global far right leader and the impact of US-China tensions on South Asian politics and struggles.
WASHINGTON—The United Auto Workers said its members will join a "mass mobilization" protesting against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's upcoming address to Congress. Netanyahu left for the U.S. on Monday and is scheduled to speak to Congress Wednesday, amid continuing global anger over Israel's genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. A recent report from …
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) decision issued All controversy regarding the nature of the situation in the occupied Palestinian territories (OPT…
A 3.6 magnitude While the Jordanian Seismological Observatory (JSO) revealed that residents felt the quake, no deaths have been reported so far. | The JSO says the earthquake happened at a depth of 9 kilometres. | The observatory added it has recorded 419 seismic activities since the start of the year, including 92 local tremors and its neighbouring countries. | The observator…
Yemen: Aden government and Houthis agree measures to 'de-escalate' | New agreement sees removal of banking restrictions and more activity by national airline | | Protesters brandish rifles during a rally in Yemen's Houthi-controlled capital Sanaa in solidarity with Palestinians on 19 July (AFP/Moham…
Hamas, Fatah and other Palestinian groups sign 'national unity' deal in China | Meanwhile, Israeli forces killed a Hamas commander in the occupied West Bank | | Left to right, Fatah's Mahmoud al-Aloul, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Hamas's Mahmoud al-Aloul at an event at the Diaoyutai State G…
"I wish Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita would deny this disturbing news. We cannot remain silent about everything," added Benkirane, head of the Justice and Development Party (PJD) on Sunday 21 July, during a gathering of his party.
One Israeli official told the Israeli website Walla that Netanyahu held a four-hour meeting on Sunday, where he ordered the delegation "not to budge"
Over the past decade and more, nuclear war has grown increasingly likely. Most nuclear arms control and disarmament agreements of the past have been discarded by the nuclear powers or will expire soon. Moreover, there are no nuclear arms control negotiations underway. Instead, all nine nuclear nations (Russia, the United States, China, Britain, France, India, Pakistan, Israel, and North Korea) 
A new survey published this week has revealed over half of The poll recorded a sharp increase in respondents revealing they were "sometimes ashamed of the actions of the Israeli government", with 54 percent feeling this way, compared to 39 percent in 2021. | The American Joint Distribution Committee (AJDC) surveyed 879 responders from 32 countries. Over half were lay leaders, and over a quarter were community professionals, including r…
Paris Olympics 2024: French MP denounces Israeli presence at games, sparking uproar | Left-wing lawmaker says Israeli athletes should compete under a neutral banner in protest against the war on Gaza, drawing accusations of antisemitism | | Demonstrators hold a banner reading "Martyrised Palestine,…
Though Gaza remains at the heart of Israel's regional aggression, the Red Sea is an increasingly The Israelis retaliated the following day with their first-ever large-scale air raid on the Yemeni port of Hodeida, bombing oil and gas depots, a power station, and cranes, all of which Israel al…
Since finding her son laying dead on the floor after being Muhammad Bahar, 24, who had Down's syndrome, held a special place in his mother's heart, who described him as "innocent" and someone who only spoke a few words. | On 4 July, Israeli forces stormed the home they were sheltering in, located in eastern Gaza City, with dogs being set on Muhammed. | "The dog…
Seven Israeli vehicles and bulldozers stormed the city and 
Firefighting teams on Monday were struggling to contain a massive blaze at Heavy flames and black smoke were seen spiralling into the sky for a third consecutive day following the strike on Saturday, said an AFP correspondent in Hodeida. | Firefighting teams appear to have made little progress, with the blaze seemi…
Israeli military behaved 'like Russian army' in West Bank, UK warned | Newly released official files reveal UK and US frustrations with Israel over 2002 offensive in West Bank paralleling current concerns over Israel's Gaza offensive | | In Ramallah, Israeli soldiers take position near a Pales…
HaYovel, a U.S. tax-deductible organization, is reaching out to "Christian Zionist" volunteers to work in illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.
The The 
WHO warns polio spreading across Gaza as Israel vaccinates its troops | Health officials say outbreak could 'spill over' into other territories if not controlled | | A Unrwa employee provides a polio vaccine for a child in a clinic in Bureij refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, on 9 September 2020 (Moh…
In a statement, the Jordanian foreign ministry said the Israeli bid breaks international law and the country's obligations as…
US Vice President A source of continuity between administrations, Harris would be picking up on the legacy of her predecessor and will have to address the same 
A football match between Belgium and The move to Hungary comes after the Belgian Football Federation (RBFA) announced last week it would not host the game on 6 September, as it would likely spark demonstrations amid Israel's ongoing war on Ac…
How the UK's approach to Israel has changed under Labour | Foreign Secretary David Lammy has significantly shifted Labour's approach to arms sales and international law since he entered government | | Foreign Secretary David Lammy announced the restoration of UK funding to Unrwa last week (A…
A The Abu Dhabi Federal Court of Appeal on Sunday handed 10-year prison sentence…
" In 2023 alone, authorities "seized a record-high 24 million captagon tablets", the equ…
Members of the Bangladesh Army gesture to commuters on the second day of curfew, as violence erupted in parts of the country after protests by students against government job quotas, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, July 21, 2024. — ReutersNearly 150 people have died in violent nationwide…
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the media after his meeting with President Droupadi Murmu, to stake claim to form the new government at the Presidential Palace in New Delhi, India, June 7, 2024. — Reuters India cuts its fiscal deficit target to 4.9% of GDP in 2024-25.New…
This combination of pictures shows US Vice President Kamala Harris and Nancy Pelosi. — AFP/File 
The AMA refuses to support a call for a ceasefire, consistent with its long history of racism under the guise of medical neutrality.
The country is gradually becoming a leader in this field…
The country also aims to increase the share of electricity generated by non-fossil fuels and strengthen forest cover…
Omer Abdullah Khan — Students across Bangladesh are grieving, but their anger and grief is fueling a heroic movement of resistance and defiance.
From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Tracy Somani arrived at the Philadelphia Ballet building on North Broad Street wearing a nervous look. | She came to take a class but wasn't sure where to go. She poked her head into a studio. Somani has been a longtime audience member at ballet performances, but never attempted to dance ballet. It seems really hard. | "I see what makes it beautiful, but I think it would demand a lot for the body and the mind and the rigor and the conditioning," she said. "I think that's why…
Lebanon's Also Saturday, the Palestinian group Hamas said it fired rockets from Lebanon toward an Israeli army post in the northern Israeli village of…
ALL OUT FOR PALESTINE: PROTEST NETANYAHU'S ADDRESS TO THE US CONGRESS VANCOUVER RALLY AND MARCH Wednesday, July 24 5: 30 pm Olympic Cauldron — March to US Consulate The people charge Benjamin Netanyhu with genocide: the brutal murder of what is estimated to be nearly two hundred thousand Palestinians, and the decimation of schools, hospitals, and …
As the genocide continued and a few days after the end of the NATO celebrations, an assassination attempt on former President Trump caused President Biden to address the nation and orate that "political violence has no place in America and U.S. politics should never be a killing field."
A new Gaza Community Mental Health Programme report paints a stark picture of the severe mental health crisis unfolding in Gaza due to the ongoing Israeli genocide.
Polio risk added to long list of crises in Gaza; Amnesty speaks out on Israeli torture, Oxfam speaks out on Israeli water weaponization; LA may hire ex-IDF soldiers to patrol streets; 1,000+ attacks on Palestinian healthcare; Ben Gvir's provocative prayer visit to Al Aqsa; Netanyahu nixes children's hospital for Gaza kids; ICC arrest warrants expected …
Yemen: Israel confirms airstrikes targeting Yemen's Hodeidah port | Israeli attacks on Yemen will not stop support for Gaza, say Houthis following deadly Israeli strikes | | Photos shared on social media show a huge fire at the Hodeidah port in Yemen (X) | The official spokesperson for the Houthis,…
Human rights groups have hailed a "historic" Friday ruling by the The 
The United Nations' highest court said that Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territories are illegal and all states should cooperate to bring an end to The findings by judges at the "Israeli settlements in the W…
The Palestinian leadership hailed a "historic" ruling by the top UN court on Friday that The office of Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas said it welcomed the "historic decision and demands that Israel be compelled to implement it." | In its non-binding advisory opinion, The Hague-based court found that Israel was "under an obligation to cease immediately all new settlement activities and to evacuate…
On Friday, Day 287 of the Israeli aggression against Gaza, the military killed several Palestinians, including children, and injured others in various regions of the devastated Gaza Strip. Media sources said that occupation airstrikes killed six Palestinians, on Friday evening, in the Nusseirat camp, in the central Gaza Strip. Sources added that warplanes targeted the …
The raid took place in the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron, where confrontations broke out and Israeli forces used live fire on civilians. | The Palestinian man has been identified as 20-year-old Ibrahim Hamza Zaqeq, with medical sources at…
Several groups representing victims of the Families of the victims, both those who died in and survived the attack led by 
An The journalist's home in the Jabalia area was targeted at dawn, making him the latest of 161 journalists to be killed in the enclave since the start of Israel's latest war on Gaza on 7 October. | Local Palestinian media reported his two children and wife were also kill…
The Palestinian Football Association (PFA) had 
On Friday, a Palestinian young man succumbed to previous wounds inflicted on him by Israeli forces in January 2024 in the town of Arraba, southwest of Jenin in the northern West Bank. According to medical sources at the Ibn Sina Hospital in Jenin, the young man, Yamen Ahmad Asfour, 19, died as a result of …
The Herzi Halevi's move during a security discussion prompted Prime Minister Discussi…
The top United Nations court is delivering a nonbinding advisory opinion Friday on the legality of Friday's hearing comes against the backdrop of In a separate case, the Inter…
Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian young man, on Friday night, in the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron in the southern occupied West Bank. According to medical sources at the Al-Ahli Hospital in Hebron, the former prisoner, Ibrahim Hamza Ibrahim Zaqaqiq, 20, died shortly after being shot in the head with live …
Israel said its warplanes hit military targets of the Houthi group Saturday, a day after a drone attack claimed by the Yemeni rebels Israeli jets struck the area of Hodeida port in Yemen, saying it came in response to the hundreds of attacks carried out against Israel in recent months, according to a military statement. <...
The report, titled Water War Crimes, details how Israel has obstructed aid and "weaponised water against Palestinians in Gaza". | According to the findings, the water availab…
Adidas has apologised for teaming up with Palestinian-American model The sportswear brand used Hadid's face for a relaunch of the SL72 shoes worn by athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics. | The tournament that year saw 11 
Next week, on Wednesday, July 24th, Israeli Prime Minister and war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to visit Washington, DC, although he has not yet received a formal invitation.
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) said the first half of this year had seen a serious escalation of violence and rights violations in the Palestinian terri…
The death of Rajab was Two paramedics with the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) were also killed trying to rescue the family. | It was reported the six-y…
Turkey is set to send President Tayyip Erdogan submitted a motion to the Turkish parliament late on Friday, seeking authorisation for the deployment of Turkish military to Somalia including the country's territorial waters, state-run Anadolu Agency reported. | The move came a day after the Turkish energy ministry announced that Turkey will send an exploration v…
Pakistani authorities said Friday they had arrested a "close associate" of Counter-terrorism officials in the most populous province of Punjab swooped in on Amin Ul-Haq in the city of Gujrat, accusing him of planning "sabotage activities" and seeking to "target important installations" in the country. | "The arrest of 
Iran is capable of producing fissile material for use in a nuclear weapon within "one or two weeks," News of Iran's capabilities follows the recent Blinken said that "what we've seen i…
The following report, by Samidoun Toronto, illustrates part of the political education work that has been so important to the development of Samidoun and the development of a strong revolutionary movement in support of the Palestinian people's struggle for liberation, return and self-determination from the river to the sea. One of the ways we at …
The following statement/article, by Samidoun Paris Banlieue, was published first in French. The English translation is below: 
Malaysia welcomed a motorcycle-riding billionaire as its 17th king. —AFPMalaysia welcomed a new king, Sultan Ibrahim, in a grand ceremony at the National Palace in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday. The newly crowned monarch is known for riding motorcycles, who took his oath in…
US Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee speaks during a House Committee on Oversight and Reform hearing on gun violence on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S. June 8, 2022. — Reuters Sheila was battling with pancreatic cancer. She was awarded Hilal-e-Pakistan by…
Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina speaks during a meeting with foreign observers and journalists at the PM's residence in Dhaka, Bangladesh on January 8, 2024. — Reuters
Turkey and Cyprus remain divided 50 years after island split | Turkey said 'no point' in continuing negotiations, while Cyprus said reunification was the only way | | Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is seen leaving a military ceremony commemorating 50 years since the spli…
Jalessah T. Jackson: Rooted in revolutionary love, parenting for liberation is an embodied practice in which, to paraphrase June Jordan, I aim to love and nurture my children into their own freedom.
The RNC played footage from a pro-Palestinian protest at Ole Miss' campus where a frat bro made monkey noises at a Black woman.
The monthly interchange among the 3rd World March organizing teams and supporters in the Asia-Pacific— India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Philippines, and friends from Australia and Europe— was held on July 14, 2024. 19-20 participants attended. Rafael de La Rubia, founder of World without Wars and Violence, promoter of the 1st, 2nd, and the upcoming 3rd World March for Peace and Nonviolence, and Antonio Carvallo, English translator, were on hand to share some of the latest developments worldwide. It was a lively affair. Activities being done and plans for the coming days were shared by the…
The Kingdom aims to reach its 2030 goals…
Artificial intelligence (AI) can supposedly solve any grammatical query for us. If it can do that, does it make learning grammar obsolete? What should English instructors teach their students, then? As increasingly advanced AI technology starts to challenge writing, we need to reevaluate what it means to be able to write. How can students wield… 
Watch live: ICJ delivers advisory opinion on Israeli occupation | The top UN court issues its view on the legal consequences of Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories | | "> | The International Court of Justice (ICJ) is set to issue an advisory opinion on Friday regarding the legal…
The International Court of Justice declared Israel's occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem is unlawful, the settlements must be evacuated, and Palestinians must be compensated and allowed to return to their lands.
Top US commander calls for more powerful response to Houthi attacks: Report | Letter comes after Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman lobbied Russian President Vladimir Putin against arming Houthis with cruise missiles | | Supporters of Yemen's Houthis in Sanaa, on 24 June 2024 (Mohammed Huwais/AF…
ICJ opinion on Israel's occupation upends the order that oppresses Palestinians | Western leaders can no longer pretend to ignore what is actually happening on the ground in occupied Palestine | | Israeli soldiers stand guard as Palestinians line up to enter a checkpoint in Qalandia, in the…
ICJ: Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands is 'unlawful' and breaches laws concerning apartheid | Top UN court says Israel's decades-long occupation of Palestinian territories should be brought to an end 'as rapidly as possible' | | Judge and President of the International Cou…
ICJ opinion necessitates arranging Palestinian right to return to 1967 lands, legal experts say | While nonbinding, the advisory opinion was described as historic by legal experts who say it has ramifications for Israel | | Israeli soldiers clash with Palestinians protesting against Isra…
Israel lobbyist in House of Lords claims thousands of pounds in public funds | Lord Polak said David Cameron encouraged him to 'stand up for Israel' in parliament at the time of his appointment | | Lord Polak stepped down as head of Conservative Friends of Israel when he entered the House o…
UK announces it will resume funding Unrwa | Foreign Secretary David Lammy announces $27m in new funding to agency, months after previous UK government suspended financing | | A man walks with a gilet bearing the logo of the UN at school run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine…
Turkey moves to deploy navy to Somali waters after new defence deal | Erdogan is seeking authorisation for troop deployment to Somali territorial waters as Ankara set to conduct maritime exploration activities there | | Turkish naval forces warship sails during a military naval parade on Bosph…
US shrugs off Baghdad's bid to broker Turkey-Syria talks | US officials paid lip service to Turkey and Syria reconciliation in their meeting with Iraq's top diplomat, putting more pressure on Kurdish-led SDF | | US soldiers patrol an area in town of Tal Hamis, southeast of Qameshli in Syria…
Dolly Parton — My Tennessee Mountain Home On the astonishing security failures attending the attempted assassination of Trump, by eugyppius Puzzling Features of Crooks Crime Scene, by John Leake Scott Ritter on JD Vance, Donald Trump and the Assassination Attempt (Video) Crooke: "The Slow-Motion Advance to the Edge of the Abyss," by Karl Sanchez The False Flag Trump Shooting: How I'd have done it (and why), by Kevin Barrett "The Attempt on President Trump's Life," by Naomi Wolf (Video) Woman Sitting Behind Trump Details Witnessing Assassination Attempt: 'Out-of-Body Experience.' What do…
An Israeli reserve officer died from wounds sustained from a "Retired officer Efraim Ben Amram, 25, a soldier of the 53rd Battalion, died of his wounds about two weeks after he was seriously injured in a drone attack launched from southern Lebanon on a military base in the Golan Heights," an a…
A field commander in Hezbollah's elite Radwan forces was killed in an Israeli strike on Habib Maatouk had replaced another commander in the elite unit, Ali Ahmed Hassin, who was killed in April in an Israeli strike, the security sources said. | The Israeli military said it had killed a Radwan Force operations unit commander it named as Ali Ja…
Every Israeli football player is a soldier. | Joining the Israeli army is mandatory in order to become a football player in the national team. | This is one of many reasons why the Palestine Football Association (PFA) is asking FIFA to expel Israel and uphold its own rules and regulations. | When the Ukraine war began, athletes from Russia and Belarus were forced to compete as "neutral" athletes. This meant no flag, no anthem, and no connection to the armed forces or support for the war. | Not only are all Israeli football players soldiers, but they regularly advertise and promote the Israeli army, posting pho…
Recently, real estate events in synagogues in Toronto, Los Angeles, and New Jersey, among other locations, have promoted property sales in Israel and the Occupied West Bank. In response, Palestinian communities have protested the sales and engaged in legal action. Marketing property assets in "Anglo neighborhoods," events of this nature target Zionist Jews from the 
The International Criminal Court (ICC) is expected to issue arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister A report by Israel's Channel 14 cited unnamed Israeli officials who said they believed that it was "highly probable" that the arrest warrants would be issued in that time frame. | This comes weeks a…
Much has been written about the political earthquakes in Britain and France, the first resulting in the crushing defeat of the Conservative Party and the latter in the overpowering of the far right, by a largely leftist coalition. But these were not the only important outcomes of the July 4 and July 7 general elections 
The UN's top court on Friday The advisory opinion of The Hague-based is not binding, but it comes amid mounting concern over Israel's war in Gaza. | Meanwhile, the Houthi group said they fired a drone that 
The State Department on Wednesday barred a former Washington also imposed visa restrictions on a group of people involved in actions undermining peace, security and stability in the 
On Thursday, Israeli forces shot a Palestinian young man with live rounds in the village of 'Asira al-Qibliya, southwest of Nablus in the northern West Bank. According to Ahmad Jibril, the director of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) Ambulance and Emergency Services in Nablus, said its ambulance crews transported a 19-year-old who sustained a …
Amnesty International on Thursday called on Israel to end the "Israeli authorities must end their indefinite incommunicado detention of Palestinians from the occupied Gaza Strip, without charge or trial … (which is) in flagrant violation of international law," the rights group said statement. | Amnes…
As temperatures climbed above 40 ∞C in Al-Auja village in the Kaabneh is one of 150 
Several Zionists have criticised The model, who has been outspoken about her Palestinian heritage and criticised Israel's ongoing war on Gaza, adorned posters of the retro-inspired shoe. | However, the promotional advertisements and social media posts were quickly lambasted by Israeli and Zionist public figure…
On Thursday, July 18th, day 286 of the Israeli assault on the entire civilian population of the Gaza Strip, Israeli bombardment continued from the pre-dawn hours, through the morning, afternoon and into the evening.
US President The warning was sent to Tehran last month highlighting US-Israeli knowledge of new research activities by Iranian scientists which could indicate steps are being taken towards nuclear weapons, Axios reported on Wednesday. | US and Israeli offi…
More than nine months after Israeli armed forces escalated their attacks on Gaza, the impacts have been catastrophic. Beyond the visible destruction, the region suffers from The 
Israeli forces demolished, on Thursday, four tourist villas in Jericho city, in the northeastern part of the occupied West Bank, and delivered orders to demolish a residential building north of occupied Jerusalem. Media sources said that occupation forces stormed near the "Hisham's Palace" archaeological site in Jericho city, accompanied by bulldozers. Sources added that the …
The summoning and prosecution of a group of girls who participated in the Many believe this incident serves as a warning that, with conservatives leaving the presidential office, pressures on civil society, opponents of the mandatory hijab, and political activists will increase. | On Tuesday…
An explosion ripped through "logistics" warehouses belonging to former "At 7: 00 pm (1600 GMT) an explosion occurred in logistics warehouses belonging to the 42 Brigade in the Yusufiyah area, south of 
The three gunmen who shot and The 
Prominent British food critic and journalist Jay Rayner said he had declined an invitation to write a culinary guide for Writing on social media platform X, the well-known critic who has been published in the Guardian and also worked for the BBC, Channel4 and The Observer, hit out at the kingdom, citing a number of reasons. | ".
A Kurdish civilian was killed by a Turkish airstrike early on Thursday while the situation in Duhok province is 
Police fired rubber bullets at hundreds of protesters, who fought back and chased retreating officers to the headquarters of Bangladesh Television (BTV) in the capital Dhaka.
In this essay, I will describe my activism on behalf of Palestinians' human rights and their right to self-determination, from my graduate student days on a US campus, to the present in my position as a tenured full professor, and the ways in which I've experienced attempts at silencing and censorship. These attempts today are more blatant and worrisome than ever before on anyone speaking up for Palestine in the USA 
The Concerned Artists of the Philippines (CAP) celebrated 41 years of dedicated service to the people through art and cultural work at their 41st General Assembly, successfully held on July 13, 2024 at the UP College of Fine Arts. | The organization paid the highest tribute to the martyrs and heroes who paved the way for national liberation. During the General Assembly, CAP successfully selected a new Board of Directors and approved its General Plan of Action for the next two years. This event also featured the opening of the CAP interactive exhibit. The assembly saw active participation from the CAP Bicol Chapte…
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Jinja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Gynecologists say reliance on traditional birth attendants is contributing to the high number of obstetric fistula in Busoga. An obstetric fistula is an abnormal opening between a woman's genital tract and her urinary tract or rectum.The condition is caused by prolonged, obstructed labor which often leaves women leaking urine, feces, or …
On Tuesday, July 16th, day 284 of the ongoing Israeli assault on the entire civilian population of the Gaza Strip. At least 50 Palestinians were killed, and many more wounded. The Israeli army committed a new massacre by bombing a school housing displaced people in the Nusseirat camp, which resulted in the death of 23 …
A group of ultra-Orthodox Major General David Zini, head of the Training Command and General Staff Corps, and Brigadier General Shay Tayeb, head of the Ground Force's Personnel Division, were in the ultra-Orthodox area of Bnei B…
Milwaukee, WI — In an incident of political thuggery and intimidation at the RNC, CODEPINK's Palestinian campaign organizer, Nour Jaghama, has been unjustly arrested by police on accusation of assaulting a member of Congress. While peacefully waiting in line to enter the event, Nour, a visibly Palestinian woman, was intentionally bumped into by a bald, white …
Five civilians, all Syrians and including three children, were killed in Israeli strikes in Lebanon on Tuesday and at least three Lebanese civilians were killed the day before, according to state me…
Lebanese official media said separate "Three Syrian children" were killed "in an enemy raid that targeted farmland in the village of Umm Toot", the Nationa…
A mere two months after the announcement of the €1 billion EU-Lebanon Already, dozens 
Shia Muslims Wednesday in Lebanon and Iraq commemorated The rift between Islam's two…
Somerville, Massachusetts — Dozens of disability justice and pro-Palestine activists gathered outside Somerville City Hall, on July 11 to demand an end to U.S support for the ongoing Zionist genocide in Gaza, which has killed and disabled hundreds of thousands of people. Disabled Palestinians are being disproportionately harmed, lacking even . . . | 
The elected majorities of both political parties argue Israel's genocide of Palestinians must be supported because Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East. $175 billion, in just 2 1/2 years, has been appropriated for war in Ukraine to defend democracy. The GOP and the Democrats have brought about a needless and reckless cold 
AIPAC spent $15 million to help defeat Jamaal Bowman and now they have their sights set on Missouri's 1st district, where Cori Bush faces a primary challenge. Can she beat the Israel lobby?>
Philadelphia Healthcare Workers for Palestine demonstration, July 14, 2024. Philadelphia The Philadelphia chapter of HealthCare Workers For Palestine (HCW4Pal) and Drexel University College of Medicine for Palestine held a rally at Rittenhouse Square in center city Philadelphia on July 14. The purpose was to call attention to the illegal use . . . | 
Israel's genocidal war is both massacring Palestinians and destroying their physical and social infrastructure. In particular, Israel has targeted Palestinian educational institutions. In late April, UN experts concluded, "with more than 80% of schools in Gaza damaged or destroyed, it may be reasonable to ask if there is an intentional effort to comprehensively destroy the Palestinian education system, an action known as 'scholasticide'."1 The aim of this settler-colonial project is to eradicate the physical, intellectual, and political reproduction of the Palestinian people. As Maya Wind documents in her new boo…
Like someone who emerged from a cave after an eternity, with deteriorating health and a dilapidated body, bodybuilding champion His family, which was waiting for him at the gate of Ofer Military Prison, saw an emaciated man who couldn't walk, supported by another man. | Both appeared exhausted, their shaggy hair and long beards making them look like they had come out of a grave. | Since October 7th, it has become co…
Israel has approved the The declaration of 12.7 square kilometres (almost 5 miles) of the According to…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the military to turn off recording at the army's command centre where meetings Under normal circumstances, everything that takes place at the army headquarters' command centre is automatically recorded by a system in operation there. | However, Netanyahu order that only his office would be allowed to record war cabinet and othe…
On Wednesday dawn, undercover Israeli soldiers infiltrated Jenin city, in the occupied West Bank's northern part, surrounded a home before many army vehicles invaded the area, and abducted two young Palestinian men. Local sources said the soldiers infiltrated Jenin in a truck carrying Palestinian license plates, before the soldiers surrounded the home of Aziz Shalabi …
UK: Labour MP Zarah Sultana tables amendment calling for end of Israel arm sales | Proposed amendment to the first King's Speech under Prime Minister Keir Starmer calls on British lawmakers to uphold international law | | Sultana is considered to be on the left wing of the ruling Labour Party (Briti…
Israeli forces abducted three Palestinians, two in Tulkarem and one near Bethlehem, in the northeastern and southern parts of the occupied West Bank, in addition to damaging vehicles near Tubas in the northeastern part. Occupation forces abducted two Palestinian young men in the Shweika neighborhood, north of Tulkarem in the northwestern part of the West …
Israel's Foreign Minister In May, Spain, Ireland and Norway Katz said Eide had requested several times to visit since then. | The Israeli ministe…
Israeli forces shot, on Tuesday, two Palestinian young men and abducted another in the Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank. Media sources said that undercover Israeli agents (Musta'ribeen) infiltrated the "Al-Tirawiyah" neighborhood in the Balata camp, and surrounded a citizen's home, while firing many live rounds. According to Ahmad …
Israeli authorities on Tuesday charged one Israeli and detained two others for The agency said Iran has sought in recent months to recruit Israelis to carry out missions in the country and that the person charged had been asked, but refused, to carry out a murder and set fire to a forest. | "Shin Bet and the police international inquiries unit have arreste…
It began with Aaron Bushnell and a visceral response of mine: Why would anyone do such a thing? Bushnell was the 25-year-old active-duty airman who set himself ablaze on February 25th in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C., to protest that country's brutal war in Gaza. The first question was tough enough, but 
Labour Friends of Israel backs UK's restoration of Unrwa funding with caveats | The influential group wants the UN agency for Palestinian refugees to eventually transfer its functions to the Palestinian Authority | | Palestinians flee from a Unrwa school targeted by an Israeli air strike (Reuters/Ra…
Authorities in Gaza civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal said the three air strikes killed at least 44 people and wounded dozens within an hour across the war-tor…
A BBC report published on Tuesday on the killing of a The 
In September, the government signed an agreement with the 
Armed groups clashed in a seaside town outside the Libyan capital late Tuesday, killing a woman bystander and sowing panic among beachgoers, emergency services and media reports said. | "The woman died after being hit in the head" by a stray bullet, emergency services spokesman Oussama Ali told Al-Ahrar television. | Libyan media reported that the clashes broke out after fighters of o…
An oil slick stretching nearly the length of Yemen's Satellite imagery from the European Space Agency showed the slick on Tuesday near the location of the The apparent slick, measuring 220 kilometres…
Syrian dictator "The problem is not the meeting, but its content," a video clip released by the p…
A threat from Upon learning of the threat, the Biden administration reached out to sen…
Iran on Wednesday rejected what it called "malicious" accusations by US media implicating it in a plot to kill former US president CNN said the alleged plot was…
Monday's shooting killed at least six people – four Pakistanis, an Indian and an Omani police officer – and wounded 28, police said. | It was the first known operation claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group in the sultanate w…
The Iraqi Ministry of Justice on Monday denied allegations it is conducting Ministry spokesperson Ahmed Laibi Abdul Hussein in a 
A large group of people gathered in Kew Gardens in Queens, New York, on July 14 to protest the sale of stolen Palestinian land. This sale, held at a private residence, was open only to vetted Zionists who went through an extensive and discriminatory registration process. As PAL-Awda NY, the . . . | 
The Right is resurgent! The Left is Back! The Center is on the march! It's always tempting to declare, on the basis of a few elections, that a political tendency is on the ascendant. I should know: I've done it myself. But the only commonality in the most recent consequential elections—France, the UK, and Iran—is 
"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him." —Shakespeare, from Julias Ceasar, spoken by Marc Antony "A proposition might fall kindly on your ear." —Prop Joe, The Wire But do you condemn Thomas Matthew Crooks? With or without their ears, none of the ruling class hears the 
A federal jury on Tuesday convicted New Jersey Democratic Senator Bob Menendez of corruption on all 16 counts he faced. He was found guilty of bribery, wire fraud, extortion, obstruction of justice, conspiracy and acting as a foreign agent for Egypt. Award-winning investigative reporter Bob Hennelly, who has been covering Menendez for decades, says it's a "condemnation of the political culture of New Jersey that's corrupt."…
US President Joe Biden speaks during the 115th National Association for the Advancement of Colored People National Convention in in Las Vegas, Nevada, on July 16, 2024. — AFP
Republican presidential candidate and former US President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, US, April 2, 2024. — ReutersTAIPEI: Taiwan should pay the US for its defence as it does not give the country anything, Republican presidential candidate…
US President Joe Biden addresses the North America's Building Trades Unions legislative conference at the Washington Hilton on April 25, 2023 in Washington, DC. — AFP
Officials intend to use 5G technology to improve the quality of life in rural communities…
WICHITA, KS—Calling the task "a heavy burden, but one I must shoulder nonetheless," local woman Raven Wilson told reporters Wednesday that she had grimly accepted the lifelong responsibility of liking every one of her sister-in-law Jessica Denbow's social media posts. "Her job is to post, mine is to like it," said… 
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police have identified the victim of a broad-day robbery incident on Jinja Road as Josh Keshav, a 32-year-old Indian national. Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) video showing Keshav being robbed by thugs who trailed him on six motorcycles has gone viral on social media. Keshav told Nkrumah Road Police that he …
La admisión del ministro de Defensa israelí, Yoav Gallant, el 1 de julio -que el ejército de su país necesitaba 10.000 soldados más de forma inmediata- podría haber conmocionado al mundo incluso hace un año. Pero desde que Hamás lanzó la operación Inundación de Al-Aqsa el 7 de octubre, el . . . | 
Yemen's In a statement on social media platform X, Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree identified the two ships as BENTLEY I, a Panama-flagged oil tanker, and the CHIOS LION, a Liberia-flagged crude oil tanker. | The BENTLEY I was attacked with "drone boats, unmanned aerial vehicles, and ballistic missiles", while the CHIOS LION was ta…
On Monday, Israeli soldiers abducted at least twenty-five, including children, Palestinians from their homes, and military roadblocks in various parts of the occupied West Bank. In Qusin village, west of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, the soldiers abducted three children, Mojahed Abdul-Rauf Salman, Mohammad Haitham Yadek, and Mohyeddin Khader, after several military jeeps …
An Israeli air strike on Monday killed Later, Hezbollah said it fired rockets at northern Israel in response. | Israel's military said it had targeted an arms depot and a military installation belonging to the powerful Iran-backed group. | "The Israeli enemy committed a massacre of civilians in the town of Bint Jbeil, with one brother and a sister in the Dagher family ki…
Palestinians have been angered by the coverage of a recent Israeli massacre in Gaza's On Saturday, a series of Israeli strikes killed at least 90 people in the Al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis, which it has previously designated a "safe zone" for Palestinian civilians. | The vast majority o…
Today, July 16, 2024, Samidoun's Europe coordinator, Mohammed Khatib, has been called for a hearing before the Belgian asylum office, after he — a Palestinian refugee born in Ein el Helweh refugee camp in Lebanon — has been targeted for political repression, with the Belgian Minister of Immigration, Nicole de Moor, seeking to withdraw his …
The near century of oppression and occupation, massive waves of media coverage and the unprecedented damage Israel has done in its war all play a role in people's dissent. Even more so, frustration grows with the fact that the US could take immediate steps to stop this, but instead actively aids and abets a genocide. 
The UK's governing British Foreign Secretary 
UK ex-minister Alan Duncan cleared of antisemitism allegations | Former foreign office minister says collusion between 'defenders of Israeli extremism' and senior Conservatives led to probe against him | | Former Conservative MP Alan Duncan in London on 1 July 2019 (AFP/Tolga Akmen) | Forme…
For seven days in a row, Mohammed Anan, a Palestinian man from the Speaking to The New Arab, the 45-year-old father of five, said, "The surprise military attack on the Tal al-Hawa neighbourhood and the industrial area did not allow me to escape with…
War on Gaza: Palestinians suffering from 'unprecedented mental health crisis' | The Gaza Community Mental Health Programme said Gazans' psychological trauma could endure 'for generations to come' | | Palestinian women react after an Israeli air strike on a UN school sheltering displaced people in Nu…
The CEO of a pro-Israel group in Alon Cassuto, who heads the 
Ceasefire talks on ending the war on Gaza remained stalled on Monday amid reports that the Palestinians had pulled out of Further negotiations between the two sides are expected to take place this week in Doha, sources involved in the mediation efforts told The New Arab's Arabic langua…
The Israeli army is reportedly running out of In filings submitted to the country's 
Thousands of British imperial and allied servicemen and women from the First World War and the Second World War are buried in the The cemeteries have suffered damages from Israeli air and artillery strikes, according to satellite image evidence. Their caretakers have had to flee or are unaccounted for as Is…
A party at an Israeli hotel triggers anger in Morocco | Youth delegation says its visit was aimed at 'fostering peace', but videos of parties, meetings with Israeli officials and food outings cause unrest at home | | Moroccans wave Palestinian flags during a march in solidarity with the…
On Monday evening, Israeli soldiers shot and seriously injured a Palestinian child in the Shiokh Al-Arroub town, north of Hebron, in the occupied West Bank's southern part. Several Israeli military vehicles invaded the town, leading to protests, and fired live rounds, rubber-coated steel bullets, and gas bombs. Medical sources have confirmed that the soldiers shot …
War on Gaza: Israeli strike on Nuseirat school kills 23 Palestinians | United Nations-run facility the latest school sheltering displaced families to be targeted by Israel | | A displaced Palestinian woman reacts at a UN school used as a shelter by displaced families, foll…
"Israel has been waging a war of revenge against prisoners within the walls of prisons an…
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In 1979, I made the first of what would turn out to be decades of periodic visits to Israel and the West Bank. I traveled there for the New York alternative publication The Village Voice to investigate Israel's growing settler movement, Gush Emunim (or the Bloc of the Faithful). The English-language Israeli newspaper, The Jerusalem Post, then reported 
Senior officials from the rival Palestinian groups The Hamas delegation is to be headed by its Qatar-based political chief 
A new Turkish military offensive launched last month has Nearly 200 families have evacuated their villages in affected areas in Duhok governorate as the fighting moves out of the mountains and gets closer to more densely populated areas. | Turkey has encroached on Iraq's territory for years. It operates a network of bases in the Kurdistan Region and regularly conducts cross-border airstrikes, which all too o…
Odious debt and collapse of the state The debt-strapped Greek government is not defending Greece from Turkey or factory tourism. Turkey continues its long-standing manipulation of NATO countries while threatening Greece. Turkish insults and aggressive actions in the Aegean continue. The Turks have the audacity and insolence to advertise to their NATO "allies" and to 
"We were given a genocidal man and a fascist man, and that is a terrible decision to pick from," says one of the protesters who joined a broad coalition of progressive groups and unions to march in Milwaukee against the Republican Party Monday on the first day of the Republican National Convention. We speak with people calling for an end to racist policies supported by the GOP; defending the rights of women, LGBTQ people and abortion access; supporting Palestine and more.
Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance is accompanied by his wife Usha Chilukuri Vance at the first day of the Republican National Convention , at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US, July 15, 2024. — Reuters Former United States president Donald Trump on Monday…
Shabana Mahmood, the United Kingdom's new Lord Chancellor can be seen dressed in formal court attire at oath-taking ceremony at the Royal Courts of Justice in London on July, 15, 2024. — X/@MoJGovUKShabana Mahmood pledges to be "champion" for rule of law.Birmingham MP took her oath of…
Republican presidential nominee and former US President Donald Trump arrives Day 1 of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US, July 15, 2024. — Reuters
Oman: Pakistanis and police officer killed in attack on Shia mosque in Muscat | Rare attack in Sultanate targets worshippers marking Ashura, with authorities saying at least three gunmen involved were killed | | Grainy footage shows worshippers fleeing the mosque in the Omani capital on Tuesday morn…
Turkey: Erdogan to skip European summit in UK | The Turkish leader will not attend the European Political Community Summit in Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, hosted by new PM Keir Starmer, citing a hectic travel schedule | | Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan attends Nato's 75th anniversary…
The leader of Nepal's largest communist party was inaugurated as prime minister at a ceremony in Kathmandu on Sunday. Khadga Prasad Oli, who heads the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist), was named to…
DETROIT—The federal government is investigating United Auto Workers (UAW) President Shawn Fain and his family as part of what many union members believe is an effort to retaliate against the union for its member-supported call for a ceasefire in Palestine. New reporting based on internal documents reveals that the federally-appointed monitor for the UAW, Neil …
July 13, 2024. The art exhibit, "Neon Dreams: Through the Prism", opened at the Imahika Art Gallery to provide a captivating window into one of the most influential art movements in 20th-Century Art. | Artworks from different artists brought together by Gabo Valenzuela is on display, whose vibrant often larger-than-life pieces incorporate imagery from everyday common objects to advertising, comic books, and video games. | By presenting these artworks, "Neon Dreams: Through the Prism", viewers are invited to reconsider the boundaries between Fine Art and popular culture. | Contemporary tribute to Filipino imaginat…
July 14, Sunday. It was proposed in February this year by the South Korean Ministry of Unification to designate the 14th of July as a national day in honor of North Korean refugees. As such, the first North Korean Refugee Day Festival was celebrated at the Dongdaemun Design Plaza, DDP, in central Seoul. The Designation Day initiative is part of broader efforts to raise awareness of human rights issues in North Korea. | The festival was attended by Koreans and foreigners with singing, dance, and business showcases. Various booths hosted by NGOs who work for North Korean defectors were busy handing out gifts, souve…
The project aims to increase the region's self-sufficiency level…
Students grew crops even in temperatures as low as 46 degrees Celsius…
Jazz in the City 2024 will Continue Celebrating Their 20th Season Thursday July 18th from 6pm to 9pm at Schiller Park, Farmer Street, featuring; AAPI (Asian American and Pacific Islander) Jazz Collective. Opening will be African Drumming from the Adanfo Ensemble. Syracuse Community Healthcare Village will have screenings and vital health information along with other organizations with wellness support. Arts & Crafters will be there as well along with food vendors including Yum Yum Shack. Attendees are encouraged to bring their lawn chairs. Free Admission and open to the public. More details available at www.cnyja…
By Justin Latif in Suva Despite the many challenges faced by Pacific journalists in recent years, the recent Pacific International Media Conference highlighted the incredible strength and courage of the region's reporters. The three-day event in Suva, Fiji, earlier this month co-hosted by the University of South Pacific, Pacific Islands News Association (PINA) and the…
Balasingham Skanthakumar looks at the conjuncture in Sri Lanka, two years after the citizens' movement and in the run-up to the presidential election later this year.
BROOKLINE, MA—Expecting at least a temporary moratorium on the subject, sources expressed surprise Tuesday when local woman Gale Dunn's recent divorce failed to slow down her continual pleas for her adult daughter to get married. "Honestly, Cara, when are you going to get serious about finding a husband and settling… 
Steve Earle and Emmylou Harris — Goodbye Why the news media's job is to groom us, by Jonathan Cook America Teeters on the Abyss. Trump shot in assassination attempt in Butler, PA, by Simplicius On the Trump assassination attempt: The establishment strikes — Neoliberal Feudalism The Biden Administration Has Exposed The Brain Rot Of Western Liberals, by Caitlin Johnstone The Distraction of Joe Biden: What genocide? What war? What militarism? by Bill Astore Biden or not, U.S. policy on Palestine stays the same, by Mitchell Plitnick A new Israeli massacre and why the end is near, by Ma…
At least 90 Palestinians were killed in the Mawasi area of Khan Younis, and at least 20 were killed in al-Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City, in two new massacres committed by Israeli forces, who have been incessantly attacking the entire civilian population of the Gaza Strip for the past 281 days. Medical sources …
Following a horrific massacre in which Israeli forces killed 90 civilians in al-Mawasi 'safe area' on Saturday afternoon, Israeli forces did not cease their relentless and ongoing bombardment of civilian areas in different parts of the Gaza Strip in the pre-dawn hours of Sunday, day 282 of Israel's attack on Gaza. A number of Palestinian …
Medical sources in the Gaza Strip have confirmed that the death toll of the Israeli massacres of displaced Palestinians in their tents in the Al-Mawasi area in Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, has reached at least 90, in addition to 300 wounded, including many children and women. The sources said …
A genocidal Jewish supremacist political culture rewards, well, a genocidal Jewish supremacist. That explains Anthony Housefather's recent appointment as Special Adviser on Jewish Community Relations and Antisemitism. On Friday Justin Trudeau rewarded his most openly hostile caucus member with the newly created position. This gives Housefather a bigger platform to promote Israel's holocaust in Gaza. …
Mourners carry the bodies of four Palestinians killed by an Israeli airstrike late Tuesday during their funeral in the West Bank refugee camp of Nur Shams, near Tulkarm, Wednesday, 3 July (Mohammed Nasser APA images) At any other time in Palestinian history, the West Bank's resistance to Israel's lethal military raids and colonial encroachments would …
On Saturday evening, Israeli soldiers shot a young man on land near the Annexation Wall, northeast of Jenin, in the occupied West Bank's northern part. Media sources said they injured a young man, from Deir Abu Da'if village, after shooting him with a live round in the leg. They added that the young man was …
Image by Koushik Chowdavarapu. | THE TWILIGHT ZONE — Picture if you will the citizens of a small town in Northeast Ohio, facing a daunting toxic threat yet trapped in a maze of regulatory capture at the so-called Environmental Protection Agency. Not the citizens of East Palestine, though they too face a challenging quest for the truth about the environmental health threats they may face. But the citizens in and around Uniontown, Ohio have been trapped in such a quagmire for decades, subjected to a dystopian level of gaslighting from the powers that be in an effort to bury the truth regarding the ultra-ha…
Bodies of 139 likely Islamic State victims recovered from mass grave in Iraq | Remains of 'women and men' discovered in mass grave west of former IS stronghold of Mosul | | An aerial view of the "Khasfa" sinkhole, one of the sinkholes in the Mosul area used by Islamic State fighters as a mass grave,…
Country: occupied Palestinian territory | Sources: Logistics Cluster, World Food Programme | Please refer to the attached Infographic.
The country is moving towards a sustainable economy…
The following article is republished from Monsour Owolabi, a New Afrikan prisoner being held in Texas, which has been laid out into a zine for easy republishing. "International solidarity must not cease or slacken, even in prisons, because a ceasefire is not even the tip of the iceberg in bringing a solution to this conflict." …
Twelve buildings are destroyed every hour in Gaza. This article first appeared on The Electronic Intifada at 
Palestinian territory, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor — During its four-day incursion into the western parts of Gaza City, the Israeli army committed horrific atrocities against Palestinian civilians, including willful killings, extensive destruction and burning of civilian buildings and homes, and forced evacuation as part of the ongoing crime of genocide for the tenth consecutive month. …
Male cops escort Serine Abuelhawa to jail where she was forced to remove her Hijab, Portland, Oregon, June 8, 2024. Portland, Oregon Serine Abuelhawa, a leading Palestinian activist, was arrested at Portland's Grand Floral Parade on June 8 for protesting the U.S.-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza. Abuelhawa said she was . . . | 
According to the Israeli daily Haaretz, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) issued the Hannibal Directive that ordered the use of force to prevent soldiers being taken into captivity at three army facilities infiltrated by Hamas on October 7. The orders were implemented in buildings where hostages were known to be held. Other orders were given to fire on civilian buildings and open areas.
Resist NATO demonstration during NATO Summit, Washington, D.C., July 7, 2024. As the NATO military alliance was meeting in Washington, D.C., Israel bombed four schools in Gaza in four days. At the invitation of President Joe Biden, Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz attended the NATO Summit. Israel's latest bombing of . . . | 
US President Joe Biden answers questions about Israel after speaking about the Special Counsel report at the White House in Washington, on February 8, 2024. — AFP The European leaders has tendered their support for US President Joe Biden following the gaffes he made at…
Right-wing former The Yisrael Beiteinu leader slammed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government's handling of its war on 
United Nations chief Antonio Guterres declared on Friday that there is no alternative to The UN Relief and Works Agency provides education, health and aid to millions of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon. Since war erupted nine months ago between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas in Gaza, UN officials have stresse…
Israel must make a decision on how to deal with "This way or that, through diplomatic efforts or a military operation, we will have to take care of it," Yuli Edelstein was quoted by Israeli media as telling 23 European ambassadors, consuls, and attachés during a tour of the Kiryat Shmona border settlement. | "It can't drag on forever," the Likud party member said. | Kiryat Shmona is one Israe…
On Friday, illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers assaulted and injured a Palestinian, and caused damage to many cars in Jericho and Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank's northeastern and central parts. Media sources said many colonizers attacked and caused damage to the car of a young man in the Al-Awja Spring area, north of Jericho. They …
American comedian and actor Rob Delaney has highlighted the plight of Speaking on the 10 July episode of show ' 
On Saturday dawn, Israeli soldiers invaded Um Dar village, west of Jenin in the occupied West Bank's northern part, and abducted three young men, including two siblings. Hilala Kabaha, the head of Um Dar Village Council, said several military vehicles advanced into the village before the soldiers invaded agricultural lands near the illegal Annexation Wall. …
Muazzaz Abayat's parents "I came back from the dead," the 37-year-old Palestinian, told AFP at a hospital in Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank. | Abayat, a butcher by trade, was arrested without explanation on October 26, just over two weeks after the Hamas attack on southern Israel which began the current war on Gaz…
Dozens of media and civil society organisations have called on BBC News, The New York Times, the AFP news agency, Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism, and the European Federation of Journalists were among over 70 signatories to an open letter calling for access to Gaza. | "We, the undersigned, request that Israeli authorities end immediately the r…
After the UNRWA Pledging Conference, 118 UN member states officially declared their participation in the Joint Commitments Initiative led by Jordan, Kuwait, and Slovenia, to support the important, life-saving word of the UNRWA. The initiative aims to provide support to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) …
Local authorities have intensified efforts to ensure coexistence between humans and animals…
Asia Pacific Report The Fiji NGO Coalition on Human Rights and other protesters took to the streets of Fiji's capital Suva yesterday in a rare demonstration demanding freedom, decolonisation and human rights in Kanaky New Caledonia and West Papua. The peaceful "pre-Bastille Day" protest came after recent events in Kanaky New Caledonia led to 10…
Pro-Palestine activists They are concerned the new 
An Iranian court has ordered the The International Court in Tehran ordered its foe the United States to pay $6.785 billion to patients with epidermolysis bullosa, a disorder that causes the skin to blister easily, the judiciary's Mizan Online website said on Thursday. | Then-president 
Kurien, staggering out of the dusty and rugged railway station with his luggage, gazed at the spools of dust and the dilapidated stone building before him as he got out. The station was small and almost in ruins. He could see a few turbaned shepherds grazing their cattle in the distance. Everything about this place… 
The "Every day, we are working for recognition," said the president of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), which Turkish Cypriot leaders declared in 1983 but which is recognised only by Ankara. | "Turkish Cypriots h…
ANALYSIS: By Denise Fisher The voters in the second round of France's national elections last weekend staved off an expected shift to the far-right. But the result in the Pacific territory Kanaky New Caledonia was also in many ways historic. Of the two assembly representatives decided, a position fell on either side of the deep…
A traveller at the Cairo International Airport was caught trying to smuggle more than one million Egyptian pounds inside shawarma sandwich wraps. | The individual, whose initials were only revealed, was travelling to Kuwait on an Egyptair flight when airport security grew suspicious of their luggage contents, a source from the airport told local media. | Upon inspection, authorities found 1,253,000 Egyptian Pounds (around $26,100) packaged to appear like shawarma wraps. | The source added that legal measures had been taken against the traveller, an Egyptian national. | No further details were given on the matt…
A number of online meetings attended by well-known figures from the Palestinians residing in 
"The International Olympic Committee (IOC) today announced that it has partnered with the National Olympic Committee (NOC) of Saudi Arabia to host the inaugural Olympic Esports Games 2025 in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia," the body said. | "The proposal will be made to the IOC Session, which will be held on the eve of the Olympic Games Paris 2024. | "The duration of the partnership between the IOC and th…
ALL OUT FOR GAZA, ALL OF PALESTINE, LEBANON VANCOUVER RALLY, MARCH AND VIGIL FOR THE MARTYRS Saturday, July 13 8 pm Robson Square, south side Vancouver Art Gallery ** Note: We are gathering at 8 pm to reach a new crowd downtown and to provide some relief from the heat. We urge all to come …
WEBINAR: Repression against Palestine in Europe. A deeper look into the repressive apparatus and strategies of confrontation (Languages: English and Spanish) Ever since the 7th of October, repression against the pro-Palestine movement in Europe has taken new levels. From banning demonstrations in multiple countries, the prosecution of activists, the media smear campaigns, up to the …